On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:11 PM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk>
wrote:
> If there were any benefit at all from using them I might
> be more inclined to respect them, but there are no benefits, therefore
> their use is a bug, as is the existence of version.pm. Unfortunately
> it's a bug that we have to keep for compatibility with a vast amount of
> code out there, but please, don't make the situation any worse by
> writing code containing the bug.
>
Bugs now? Got a ticket number? … seeing as perl itself contains these
bugs:
$ perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper $^V'
$VAR1 = bless( {
'original' => 'v5.22.0',
'qv' => 1,
'version' => [
5,
22,
0
]
}, 'version' );
$
… or is this a case of _Quod licet Perl, non licet CPAN_?
Eirik
