Re: BUG #5339: Version of Perl detected incorrectly

Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:31:05PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>> I still think that this is optimizing the wrong thing.  We care about
>> the clarity of the message the user sees, not about how short or clean
>> the Perl code is.

> There's no need to try to parse the perl -v output, which is intended
> for humans and may change in future.  Using

>     perl -e 'print $]'

will give you the version number in floating point format for all
versions of perl.

$ /usr/local/bin/perl4 -e 'print $]'
$RCSfile: perl.c,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.8 $$Date: 1993/02/05 19:39:30 $
Patch level: 36

I will refrain from further comment.

            regards, tom lane