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On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:46:50AM +0100, Tassilo von Parseval wrote:
> Interestingly, perlmod.pod is deliberately misleading the reader. It
> gives this code as an example:
>
> $VERSION = do { my @r = (q$Revision: 2.21 $ =~ /\d+/g);
> sprintf "%d."."%02d" x $#r, @r };
>
> This implies that versioning always happens through $VERSION whereas the
> above could also be a candidate for an overridden VERSION() method.
perl -wle 'package Foo; $VERSION = 4.2; print Foo->VERSION'
4.2
VERSION() reads $VERSION.
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