Re: Why are versions restricted to 999?

Steffen Mueller wrote:
>> Why have a limit on a simple integer, and such a low one?  I did this 
>> in the distant past with MakeMaker and was roundly, and justly, 
>> admonished.
> 
> IIRC it's because the magic XXXXXXXX.YYY.ZZZ <-> XXXXXXXX.YYYZZZ 
> association is assumed all over the place.

I was worried that was it.  That conversion should be considered, but not 
enshrined in the spec as a limit.

As noted earlier, the spec is missing a definition about how versions compare. 
  Using the conversion algorithm I outlined to convert from decimal to dotted, 
which appears to be what version.pm uses, there's no need for a limit. 
vX.YYYY is always greater than X.anything because you can't express vX.YYYY as 
a dotted version.  And that's fine, there's no requirement for a one to one 
mapping.  So long as every decimal can be expressed as a dotted everything can 
be compared.