text_combined: tom wyant veyjhbyfbuaeanjperlorg new ticket created tom wyant please include string perl 47015 subject line future correspondence issue bug report perl abkwyantswhiteimaclocal generated help perlbug 136 running perl 5100 new use version diagnostic vstring userequire nonportable mentioned perldelta 5100 know whether oversight editorial decision clutter perldelta trivialities former hoped service catching latter intend quibble use versionrelated diagnostics appear 5100 perldiag 588 perldiag unable determine whether genuinely new simply omitted 588 perldiag invalid version format multiple underscores invalid version format underscores decimal version string contains invalid data ignoring lastly seems description vstring userequire nonportable somewhat confusing first reading seems say use floating point version numbers backward portability say help instead want scripts backward portable use floating point version number example instead use 561 say use 5006_001 course wont help older perls wont suddenly start understanding newer features least show sensible error message indicating required minimum version something like want scripts backward portable use floating point version number example instead use 561 say use 5006_001 course wont make older perls suddenly start understanding newer features least show sensible error message indicating required minimum version might clearer indeed intended meaning last point borders spellinggrammar flame intended tacked somewhat apologetically end rather submitted separately please apply editorial judgement flags categorydocs severitywishlist site configuration information perl 5100 configured tom mon oct 29 134759 edt 2007 summary perl5 revision 5 version 10 subversion 0 patch 32200 configuration platform osnamedarwin osvers790 archnamedarwinthreadmulti2level unamedarwin wyantswhiteimaclocal 790 darwin kernel version 790 wed mar 30 201117 pst 2005 rootxnuxnu517127obj1release_ppc power macintosh powerpc config_args hintrecommended useposixtrue d_sigactiondefine useithreadsdefine usemultiplicitydefine useperliodefine d_sfioundef uselargefilesdefine usesocksundef use64bitintundef use64bitallundef uselongdoubleundef usemymallocn bincompat5005undef compiler cccc ccflags fnocommon dperl_darwin nocppprecomp fnostrictaliasing pipe iusrlocalinclude optimizeos cppflagsnocppprecomp fnocommon dperl_darwin nocppprecomp fnostrictaliasing pipe iusrlocalinclude ccversion gccversion33 20030304 apple computer inc build 1671 gccosandvers intsize4 longsize4 ptrsize4 doublesize8 byteorder4321 d_longlongdefine longlongsize8 d_longdbldefine longdblsize8 ivtypelong ivsize4 nvtypedouble nvsize8 off_toff_t lseeksize8 alignbytes8 prototypedefine linker libraries ldenv macosx_deployment_target103 cc ldflags lusrlocallib libpthusrlocallib usrlib libsldbm ldl lm lc perllibsldl lm lc libcusrliblibcdylib sodylib useshrplibfalse libperllibperla gnulibc_version dynamic linking dlsrcdl_dyldxs dlextbundle d_dlsymunundef ccdlflags cccdlflags lddlflags bundle undefined dynamic_lookup lusrlocallib locally applied patches devel inc perl 5100 swlibperl5 swlibperl5darwin usrlocaltestperl5100lib5100darwinthreadmulti2level usrlocaltestperl5100lib5100 usrlocaltestperl5100libsite_perl5100darwinthreadmulti2level usrlocaltestperl5100libsite_perl5100 environment perl 5100 dyld_library_path unset homeuserstom lang unset language unset ld_library_path unset logdir unset pathswbinswsbinbinsbinusrlocalbinusrbinusrsbindevelopertoolsuserstomcodetoolsusrx11r6bin perl5libswlibperl5swlibperl5darwin perlpkgoptnoppm perl_badlang unset shellbinbash wed 06 aug 2008 224057 0700 perl 47015 vstring userequire nonportable perldelta