v-strings deprecated; what to use instead?

pbeckingham has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Now that I have upgraded to 5.8.4, I see that v-strings are deprecated. I looked around, and found some discussion on the subject (Everything you wanted to know about Module Version Numbers and Checking and Simple Module Tutorial among many others), but the discussions all predate the deprecation of v-strings, as far as I can tell.

So my question is, what should use I instead of v1.2.3? Is it:

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Re: v-strings by hv (Prior) on May 11, 2004 at 09:17 UTC
The intention is that you should: `use version;` [download] See version (the lower-case one, by John Peacock). Hugo	[reply] [d/l]
Re: v-strings by Errto (Vicar) on May 11, 2004 at 02:35 UTC
I'm running 5.8.3, and I notice that `perldata` certainly suggests that v-strings are deprecated, but the only mention I could find in `perldoc -f use` suggests that the 1.002003 form is preferred for backward compatibility reasons, but it doesn't seem to say anything about forward compatibility. But I guess that's better if you want to make all your Perls happy.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: v-strings by castorbaway (Acolyte) on May 11, 2004 at 06:53 UTC
`1.002_03`, IIRC. On the other hand, v1.2.3 will still work, but it will create a "version object", not a v-string, which will stringify to (IIRC) 1.2.3, and numify to (IIRC) 1.00203. You should test everything I'm saying, as I likely do not Recall Correctly.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: v-strings by pbeckingham (Parson) on May 11, 2004 at 11:10 UTC
Oh yes, it works, but I'm getting the `Use of v-strings is deprecated` messages. It's those I want to avoid.	[reply] [d/l]


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