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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: 3.041?
Message-ID: <10523@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 24 Nov 90 20:53:46 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.150010.7185@squirrel.mh.nl> <&$7fg2.0&2@smurf.sub.org> <10466@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <16047@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <16047@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
: Yeah but roundoff error in the VERSION NUMBER is bogus.  Can't you force
: $] to have the string attribute and stay exactly "3.041"?

Not and stay compatible with what $] currently means in a string context.

Larry