Hi Bruno, Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> writes:
> Can this be rewritten in a simpler way, that does not use idioms
> from perl's bag of tricks? Something like
>
> my $copyright_year = <some_expression>;
>
> like one would do it in every other programming language?
Not sure. I'm not the most knowledgeable perl programmer. Maybe
something like this is more clear?
my $copyright_year = (split ("-", $VERSION))[0];
or perhaps someone else has a better idea.
Collin
