From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 07:22:46 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: alias to $^V to $PERL_VERSION_TUPLE
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alias to $^V to $PERL_VERSION_TUPLE

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5039
---

diff --git a/lib/English.pm b/lib/English.pm
index 86d75a4..4e3210b 100644
--- a/lib/English.pm
+++ b/lib/English.pm
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ sub import {
 	*EGID
 	*PROGRAM_NAME
 	*PERL_VERSION
+	*PERL_VERSION_TUPLE
 	*ACCUMULATOR
 	*DEBUGGING
 	*SYSTEM_FD_MAX
@@ -165,6 +166,7 @@ sub import {
 # Internals.
 
 	*PERL_VERSION				= *]	;
+	*PERL_VERSION_TUPLE			= *^V	;
 	*ACCUMULATOR				= *^A	;
 	*COMPILING				= *^C	;
 	*DEBUGGING				= *^D	;
diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod
index 28842ef..f0cb109 100644
--- a/pod/perlvar.pod
+++ b/pod/perlvar.pod
@@ -873,6 +873,8 @@ The time at which the program began running, in seconds since the
 epoch (beginning of 1970).  The values returned by the B<-M>, B<-A>,
 and B<-C> filetests are based on this value.
 
+=item $PERL_VERSION_TUPLE
+
 =item $^V
 
 The revision, version, and subversion of the Perl interpreter, represented