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Postings from September 2011
On 09/04/2011 01:51 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote: > So let me see if I understand this correctly. Starting with Perl > 5.10, UNIVERSAL::VERSION returned a version object that, when used in > a string context, stringified to its original, declared form (which > for vstrings meant sprintf "v%vd"). Close; it always returned the stringified version object, not the version object itself. > But in bleed and version.pm > 0.92-0.94, UNIVERSAL::VERSION now returns exactly the same value as > $Foo::VERSION. Which kind of obviates the use of UNIVERSAL::VERSION > when called with no arguments, no? That's it in a nutshell... > I think if I had noticed this thread before I would have argued with > David Golden about this point. It seems to me that a version object > is far more useful in general than whatever crap happened to be put > into $VERSION -- and the latter can be fetched directly, anyway.\ I'm sorry I didn't fight harder, but at this point, I am as sick of version arguments as much as anyone. John