Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
>  
>  David M. Lloyd [dmlloyd@[...].net] quoth:
>  *>
>  *>I think that vstrings are as simple as you can get, I mean what's
>  *>difficult about v1.0?
>  
>  Ask the authors of nearly half of CPAN that question who can't get the
>  regular version either in there or in there correctly :)
>  
>  vstrings are fine, but I don't think it will help the current problem of
>  so many people not getting the basic form right. It also might cause some
>  confusion on the user end of things as having one module be v1.0 and
>  another be 1.00, etc. Whatever gets more authors using versions in their
>  modules can't be all bad though.

If I work on this, I'll make sure that the code in use() understands
both 1.0 and v1.0 (or at least will be able to deal with both by
calling the appropriate routines).  The question then becomes simply 
what IS the standard form, and shoehorn anything that is non-standard
into that form, THEN do the comparison.

I am inclined to use vstrings as the standard form and convert anything
else into that prior to comparison.

John

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