Re^2: In Need of Mentoring

AFAIK, the recommendation is to use a float with 6 decimal places.

It is? By whose authority? Does that mean Perl goes back to the 5.005 and before era, and the next version of Perl is going to be 5.016000?

If you think there are good reasons to use floats with 6 decimals, by all means, state and defend your reasons. Don't hide behind weasel words like "the recommendation is".

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Re^3: In Need of Mentoring by repellent (Priest) on Jan 16, 2012 at 21:21 UTC
If you think there are good reasons to use floats with 6 decimals, by all means, state and defend your reasons. Don't hide behind weasel words like "the recommendation is". Thanks for pointing it out (albeit in your signature JavaFrantic way ;-). It's unfounded, and I'll strike it off. FWIW, here are some references I've looked at: Version numbers should be boring Everything you wanted to know about Module Version Numbers and Checking version	[reply]
Re^3: In Need of Mentoring by Anonymous Monk on Jan 17, 2012 at 00:39 UTC
`$ perl -le " print $] 5.014001 $ perl -le " print $^V v5.14.1 .14 is 014 .1 is 001` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: In Need of Mentoring by JavaFan (Canon) on Jan 17, 2012 at 09:14 UTC
Other than showing Perl cares about backwards compatability, do you have a point?	[reply]