in reply to Re: perl 4/5 version issues
in thread perl 4/5 version issues

Have you tried typing in the full path to perl for your test? /usr/bin/perl4 -e "print $]"
I think I'll have to hunt down to make sure Perl4 behaved in the way you expect it to.

Update:
Ah ha. This has part of the answer:
Why am I getting long decimals?
Now I just need to find out why 5...

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Re: perl 4/5 version issues
by cLive ;-) (Prior) on Jun 15, 2001 at 20:18 UTC
    I think you're missing my point.

    If I type perl whatever, I expect the same binary to run. So why the peculiarity between perl -v or perl -e "print $]";.

    That's what I'm confused about...

    cLive ;-)

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