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On Monday 30 November 2009 at 20:45, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org> [2009-12-01 05:00]: > > +1 to giving regexps which document the syntax, but minus > > several to encouraging people to copy and paste them. Here's > > a nice chance to reduce fragmentation of syntax; let's reduce > > fragmentation of implementation as well. > So what do you propose instead? Exposing the scan_version routine > to pure Perl code somehow? If the intent is to migrate to a single, consistent form for version numbers by 5.16, perhaps the best approach is to expose that routine somewhere like version.pm. Pros: it's a core module, it will remain a core module, and it already handles version numbers. Con: that feature won't be available when installing the CPAN version.pm on older Perls. Then again, neither is the package VERSION syntax. -- cThread Previous | Thread Next