> To make matters interesting, a leading v on a Perl version, or the presence of 2 or more .'s imply a sort order closer to Gentoos. This is 100% classic perl:

> To make matters interesting, a leading v on a Perl version, or the presence of 2 or more .'s imply a sort order closer to Gentoos. This is 100% classic perl: the default is bonkers and unintuitive, but the behaviour also changes in a DWIM manner to throw people off. And of course there are two different ways to represent versions so simply forgetting the v (one character) can cause a litany of bugs.