Re: This Week on perl5-porters (16-22 September 2002)

Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> This Week on perl5-porters (16-22 September 2002)
>     John Peacock told us that he was in the process of releasing a v-string
>     module, "version.pm", to CPAN. As he says, *the code is intended to be
>     basically 100% equivalent to the code which will be included in 5.10*,
>     but backported to perl 5.005_03 ! (or should it be v5.5.3 now ?)

Minor correction: version-0.17.tar.gz is a version object module which no longer 
relies on v-strings to store the version.  It will permit all modern versions of 
Perl to use the same version object features that will hopefully be native in 5.10.

John

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