David Dyck wrote:
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> if 3 digits is preferred, then the example in perlmod should be changed
>
If I am successful in getting version objects into the core, it won't matter,
but yes the example should be updated. With my patches it would be a simple
$VERSION = qw$Revision: 2.105 $[1];
> I haven't had time to examine some of the core modules that
> parse version numbers.
The patches I am working on will replace all version parsing code with a call
to UNIVERSAL::VERSION() so that there will be a single correct way to parse
versions (or a single point of failure if you prefer it that way).
John
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