What about v-strings, or the other equivalent forms of version number ?

Something similar to the version module will be part of Perl 5.10.0 . In the example bellow, note that $a could also have been '1.2.3' or other forms of version number (see perldoc).

use version;

# Version comparison

# '1.2.3', 'v1.2.3',  1.2.3

my $a = qv(  'v1.2.3'   );
my $b = qv(  '1.2.29'   );

# Compare
print +($a>$b) ? $a : $b;
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