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From:
Leon Brocard
Date:
March 30, 2001 12:49
Subject:
small base.pm doc patch
Message ID:
20010330214957.B8733@ns0.astray.com
The documentation for base.pm states:
If $VERSION is not detected even after loading it, <base> will
define $VERSION in the base package, setting it to the string
C<-1, defined by base.pm>.
However, the source actually sets it to: "-1, set by base.pm".
Ref: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1999-05/msg00811.html
I'm not convinced which way the patch should go, but the following
Really Small patch updates the docs to be correct:
--- base.pm.orig Fri Mar 30 21:43:32 2001
+++ base.pm Fri Mar 30 21:46:09 2001
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
determined by the absence of a global $VERSION in the base package.
If $VERSION is not detected even after loading it, <base> will
define $VERSION in the base package, setting it to the string
-C<-1, defined by base.pm>.
+C<-1, set by base.pm>.
=head1 HISTORY
HTH, Leon
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