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On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:11 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote:
> I'm outputting the version in the "generated by" meta header of HTML. I do something similar for the PGXN API, where a header identifies the version.
If it were my code, I'd use $Foo::VERSION. I don't care about global
access, because it's my own global.
> So I just want a string. And the original is a vstring.
And now you're stuck with it. You can do this if you know it's a
v-string and don't want to mess with version.pm:
sprintf("v%vd", $Foo::VERSION) # "v1.2.3"
-- David