From: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:30:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject:    Subject: Update perlhist.pod
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   Subject: Update perlhist.pod
   From: mjd@plover.com
   Date: 6 Mar 2002 07:11:55 -0000
   Message-Id: <20020306071155.10240.qmail@plover.com>

   Subject: [PATCH pod/perlvar.pod] $^V => string
   From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
   Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 14:56:55 +0800
   Message-Id: <3C85BDB7.7050700@stason.org>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@15060
---

diff --git a/pod/perlhist.pod b/pod/perlhist.pod
index 1afd0ca..2db0d3a 100644
--- a/pod/perlhist.pod
+++ b/pod/perlhist.pod
@@ -392,10 +392,16 @@ explained below.
  5.004_73       1874  76   1467 152    762 102    506 196   1883  61
  5.004_75       1877  76   1467 152    770 103    508 196   1896  62
  5.005          1896  76   1469 152    795 103    509 197   1945  63
- 5.005_03	1936  77   1541 153    813 104    551 201   2176  72       
- 5.005_50	1969  78   1842 301    795 103    514 198   1948  63
- 5.005_53	1999  79   1885 303    806 104    602 224   2002  67
+ 5.005_03       1936  77   1541 153    813 104    551 201   2176  72       
+ 5.005_50       1969  78   1842 301    795 103    514 198   1948  63
+ 5.005_53       1999  79   1885 303    806 104    602 224   2002  67
  5.005_56       2086  79   1970 307    866 113    672 238   2221  75
+ 5.6.0          2930  80   2626 364   1096 129    868 281   2841  93
+ 5.7.0          2977  80   2801 425   1250 132    975 307   3206 100
+ 5.6.1          3049  80   3764 484   1924 159   1025 304   3593 119
+ 5.7.1          3351  84   3442 455   1944 167   1334 357   3698 124
+ 5.7.2          3491  87   4858 618   3290 298   1598 449   3910 139
+ 5.7.3          3415  87   5367 630  14448 410   2205 640   4491 148
 
 The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code
 distribution.  The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means
@@ -404,7 +410,7 @@ regular files.
  core   *.[hcy]
  lib    lib/**/*.p[ml]
  ext    ext/**/*.{[hcyt],xs,pm}
- t      t/**/*(.)
+ t      t/**/*(.) (for 1-5.005_56) or **/*.t (for 5.6.0-5.7.3)
  doc    {README*,INSTALL,*[_.]man{,.?},pod/**/*.pod}
 
 Here are some statistics for the other subdirectories and one file in
@@ -566,8 +572,9 @@ context diff output format.
 Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.
 
 Thanks to the collective memory of the Perlfolk.  In addition to the
-Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Andreas König, John
-Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Jeff Okamoto, Michael Peppler,
-Randal Schwartz, and Paul D. Smith sent corrections and additions.
+Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Mark Dominus, 
+Andreas König, John Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Jeff Okamoto,
+Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and Paul D. Smith sent corrections
+and additions.
 
 =cut
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index ac4ebf8..5d04e22 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -1077,6 +1077,11 @@ Control.)  Example:
 
     warn "No \"our\" declarations!\n" if $^V and $^V lt v5.6.0;
 
+To convert C<$^V> into its string representation use sprintf()'s
+C<"%vd"> conversion:
+
+    printf "version is v%vd\n", $^V;  # Perl's version
+
 See the documentation of C<use VERSION> and C<require VERSION>
 for a convenient way to fail if the running Perl interpreter is too old.