Johan Vromans wrote: > My suggestion is, that in that case, it would be better to have perl > expose the necessary entry point(s) so version can call this entry > point directly, instead of going the (tedious and error-prone) way of > cut/paste.
Perl doesn't work like that (at least not until Perl6 at the earliest). The tokenizer is not pluggable (though some people have talked about making it so). The version code must be at the lowest level of the Perl source, because Perl itself uses it ($^V is now a version object). Also, the code in UNIVERSAL::VERSION is version-object aware (and is exactly the code that the CPAN release uses to support earlier Perl releases). I don't see of any way that it would be possible to make the version object code independent of Perl v5.10.0... John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Blvd Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747
