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On Nov 30, 2009, at 7:24 PM, John Peacock wrote:
> The altered behavior would only happen if a flag was set; the default behavior would be unchanged from what it is now. Anyone using
>
> use version; our $VERSION = version->new("1.2.3");
>
> would continue to get exactly what they asked for...
As would folks just doing
our $VERSION = '1.2.3';
or
use vars '$VERSION';
$VERSION = 1.2;
?
> The old parser that I am talking about is only used for:
>
> use package 1.1;
>
> and now
>
> package foo 1.2;
>
> Nothing else uses that codepath at all. What I am suggesting is that I make Perl_scan_version enforce the rules that David Golden (and others) have suggested and only use those limitations when called internally by those two instances listed above.
+1.
Best,
David
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