# from David E. Wheeler
# on Wednesday 22 April 2009 14:04:

>> It should have been 1.0.6.  Just adding a dot at every digit would
>> actually have been somewhat obvious.
>
>Yes, but look at this:
>
>   1.9    => 1.9.0
>   1.10   => 1.1.0
>
>Doesn't really do the trick.

What?  Why not?  What comparison are you using between 1.9 and 1.10?  If 
it's not float (i.e. base-10, 0123456789, left-to-right), then I'm 
super confused.

  perl -e 'use warnings; use strict;
    BEGIN {package foo; our $VERSION = "1.9"; $INC{"foo.pm"}=1}
    use foo "1.10";'

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