On 2012.7.27 12:48 PM, Jeffrey Thalhammer wrote:
> I just discovered that version.pm always treats version numbers with an
> underscore as less than the equivalent version number without the underscore.
> So "6.63_02" is less than "6.6302". Is it it just me, or does that seem
> crazy?
> Dealing w
It's crazy. But it's been that way since Perl 5.10.0 in 2007. So now
we're stuck with it.
The C<$VERSION = eval $VERSION> idiom avoids some issues with it by
losing the underscore at runtime, but that might not be enough for
things that parse your distribution tarball version number and try to
d
I just discovered that version.pm always treats version numbers with an
underscore as less than the equivalent version number without the underscore.
So "6.63_02" is less than "6.6302". Is it it just me, or does that seem crazy?
Dealing with $VERSION numbers in Perl is hard enough as it is. T
