On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Jens Rehsack via RT wrote:
Show quoted text> Tue Feb 03 08:04:01 2009: Request 42994 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by REHSACK
> Queue: Time-Local
> Subject: Versioning is slightly nasty ...
> Broken in: 1.1901
> Severity: Normal
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: REHSACK@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42994 >
>
>
> In perl the version '1.19' means the number 1.019 - and the number
> 1.1901 means the version string '1.190.1'. If the next version you
> release is '1.20', every
> use Time::Local 1.1901;
> will report an error.
This is not true at all. The numbers are only interpreted that way if they
are version objects. Seeing as I didn't "use version" there, they're not.
Please don't respond to this ticket, as doing so will re-open it.
-dave
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