On Tue Aug 30 20:28:35 2011, david@kineticode.com wrote:
Show quoted text> I'm using Perl 5.14.1 on Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion". I compiled Perl myself.
> With any of version v0.92-v0.94 installed from CPAN, I get this:
>
> perl -MPGXN::Meta::Validator -E 'say PGXN::Meta::Validator-
> >VERSION'
>
>
> That's no version.
No, it is just invisible (actually the nonprintable ShiftOut character):
$ cat VTest.pm
package VTest;
our $VERSION=v0.14.0;
1;
$ perl -I. -MVTest -e 'print $VTest::VERSION'
$ perl -I. -MVTest -e 'printf("%vd", $VTest::VERSION)'
0.14.0
NOTE: I am not using version.pm's UNIVERSAL::VERSION at all, so you can
see the actual behavior that is being demonstrated.
The complaint was raised on p5p that UNIVERSAL::VERSION returned a
stringified version object when use without a parameter, rather than the
contents of the package's $VERSION scalar. So, in both the bleadperl
release and the CPAN release of version.pm, UNIVERSAL::VERSION now
returns the actual contents of the scalar (which
is what it used to do before version objects were added to the core).
I don't like it, but there you go. Bring it up on p5p and maybe you can
convince everyone else... :(
