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On Wed, 1 Jun 2022 at 17:15, Ovid <curtis.poe@gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone else have an opinion on this? > > On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 9:18 PM Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> > wrote: > >> ... >> On 2022-05-28 4:16 a.m., Ovid wrote: >> > Not sure what it would take to do this, but this kind of error crops up >> a few times: >> > >> > Can't locate object method "some_method" via package "Some::Class" >> > >> > In my case, it turns out that some CPAN testers were using versions of >> a >> > Type::Tiny released eight years ago. >> > >> > It would be nice if the error looked like this: >> > >> > Can't locate object method "some_method" via package "Some::Class, >> version 1.01" > > This effectively means "call the ->VERSION method", which would seem to add some complexity? side effects of the method, what if it throws an exception, etc. Just reading $VERSION could lead to different values than the "official" class version... then again, the version may not match the distribution version in the first place. Aside from that, keeping the version *outside* the quoted string may help reduce breakage for anything that's trying to parse the existing string.Thread Previous | Thread Next