On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:22 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>wrote: > Porters, > > Can someone explain this to me? I don't understand why Package->VERSION > would return something that's not printable. I've been using this in code > for years, e.g., > > meta { > name is 'generator'; > content is 'PGXN::Manager ' . PGXN::Manager->VERSION; > }; > > This was done intentionally. Workarounds: use version; our $VERSION=version->parse(v0.14.0); and/or version->parse( PGXN::Manager->VERSION )