Re: [perl #69452] UNIVERSAL::VERSION method docs fail to state acceptablevalues of $VERSION

Hi Richard,

Richard Soderberg wrote:
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> UNIVERSAL 1.05 says that:
> 
>   C<VERSION> will return the value of the variable C<$VERSION> in the
> package the object is blessed into.
> 
> However, this is not true for all values of $VERSION:
> 
>   #!/usr/bin/perl -E
>   $Foo::VERSION = "3.210"; say Foo->VERSION;
>   $Bar::VERSION = "3.210pre"; say Bar->VERSION;'
> 
>   __DATA__
>   3.210
>   0
> 
> The documentation has no mention of this behavior.

I tried to reproduce this on bleadperl, 5.10.1, and 5.10.0 and all three 
produce:
3.210
3.210

The only change is that I put a 'use 5.010;' in front of the two lines.

Now, whether this is the expected behaviour is another issue altogether. 
I'd expect it to behave the same as version.pm's 
"".version->new("3.210pre") and if someone in the know could confirm 
that, then documenting that it's passed through a version object may be 
worthwhile.

Best regards,
Steffen

• [perl #69452] UNIVERSAL::VERSION method docs fail to state acceptable values of $VERSION by Richard Soderberg
• Re: [perl #69452] UNIVERSAL::VERSION method docs fail to state acceptablevalues of $VERSION by John Peacock
• Re: [perl #69452] UNIVERSAL::VERSION method docs fail to state acceptablevalues of $VERSION by Steffen Mueller
• Re: [perl #69452] UNIVERSAL::VERSION method docs fail to stateacceptable values of $VERSION by Abigail
• Re: [perl #69452] UNIVERSAL::VERSION method docs fail to state acceptablevalues of $VERSION by John Peacock