From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 08:08:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Rework the perldata vXX => ... entry a bit.
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Rework the perldata vXX => ... entry a bit.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20089
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diff --git a/pod/perldata.pod b/pod/perldata.pod
index 785f28e..0aeffc3 100644
--- a/pod/perldata.pod
+++ b/pod/perldata.pod
@@ -361,9 +361,12 @@ Note that using the v-strings for IPv4 addresses is not portable unless
 you also use the inet_aton()/inet_ntoa() routines of the Socket package.
 
 Note that since Perl 5.8.1 the single-number v-strings (like C<v65>)
-are not v-strings before the C<< => >> operator.  (They were v-strings
-from Perl 5.6.0 to Perl 5.8.0, but that caused more confusion and
-breakage than good.)
+are not v-strings before the C<< => >> operator (which is used to
+separate a hash key from a hash value), instead they are interpreted
+as literal strings ('v65').  They were v-strings from Perl 5.6.0 to
+Perl 5.8.0, but that caused more confusion and breakage than good.
+Multi-number v-strings like C<v65.66> and C<65.66.67> continue to
+be v-strings always.
 
 =head3 Special Literals