On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2011/02/09 15:49, sawyer x wrote:
>
> >
> > Any idea how to convince it to copy the underscore too?
> >
> >
> > You specified $VERSION as a number (0.29_01), instead of as a string
> > using quotes ("0.29_01").
> > That made Perl evaluate it in numerical context instead of a string
> > context, so it ignored the underscore, giving you the number 0.2901.
> Ufff. I hate Perl's version numbers.
>
Well, while I blamed Perl first as well, then I noticed Perl's users,
specifically those who decided that ANYTHING can be a version number. For
example 3.5.5ab-stabl. What the hell is that? There are version numbers like
those in CPAN...
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