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On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 12:12:49AM -0600, david nicol wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 18:15, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > > Version incompatibilities of the type you're talking about don't become > > important until many versions down the road, if ever at all, at which > > point they've presumably figured it out themselves. > > Schwern said this? Schwern? Schwern is presuming that people in general > are capable of figuring something out for themselves? After even > Dr. Conway failed to add a VERSION method that would throws > error on attempts to include the ealier, incompatible version of > Parse::RecDescent? The details are subtle and I cannot explain them, > here's Fergal Daly fro module authors: The idea of throwing a wad of commented out cut & paste code into the h2xs template just because the author might need it a dozen releases down the road is the problem here. The VERSION issue is irrelevant. Use a module. That's what they're for. -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Worship the sig fileThread Previous | Thread Next