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On 09/06/2011 01:57 PM, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > Dave Wheeler wrote: >> But how much has it been complained about, really? > > The only part of it that I really disliked what that it would choke > on what it considered invalid versions, even though I was just > asking for the version, not asking it to validate. It wasn't choking on "what it considered invalid versions"; it was choking on total garbage. $VERSION has been defined in the Perl docs and the core code since the dawn of time as a number. That's it. No "3crap" stuff. A number. With 5.6.0, the concept of number was extended to v-strings (badly). JohnThread Previous | Thread Next