Re: version-0.77 and You

Gisle Aas wrote:
> I think the term "dotted-decimal" is pretty confusing, especially when
> what you contrast that with is "decimal version numbers" (which includes
> a dot).  I suggest you call it "integers separated by dots" or
> "dotted-integers" for short.

They used to be fevered to as "numeric" and "extended" versions; I think
the decimal and dotted-decimal are a vast improvement (thanks David!).
I don't think "dotted-integer" is quite as good, if only because it has
no poetic flow.

> In the section about declaring versions in the traditional way (using
> decimal $VERSION) I suggest it's presented in the string form:
> 
>    our $VERSION = "1.02";
> 
> This is the recommended form as you don't get surprises when the version
> number turns into "1.10".

Except that form (quoted) is wrong.  There is still code that assumes
that $VERSION contains a number, not a string, and will barf.  You can
get away with that with version objects, but not plain old numeric.  It
also makes it hard for people to remember that on a 'use' line, you must
not quote it.

John