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| author | John Peacock <jpeacock@cpan.org> | 2011-12-08 20:55:37 -0500 |
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| committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2011-12-09 14:59:04 -0500 |
| commit | a3e88ad7b21876c5341fd043218d0725ec4c4fcb (patch) | |
| tree | 80477d2f2fac15f39d26fd74b1ad26a976a0d563 /lib/UNIVERSAL.pm | |
| parent | 249f7ddc6a71afa99cbcae72f08451ee2462c7c5 (diff) | |
| download | perl-a3e88ad7b21876c5341fd043218d0725ec4c4fcb.tar.gz | |
Update UNIVERSAL::VERSION POD to reflect reality.
This should have been done when version objects were originally
added to the core back in 5.10.0. Mea culpa.
[I bumped UNIVERSAL.pm version and added a perldelta entry. -- DG]
Signed-off-by: David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/UNIVERSAL.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/UNIVERSAL.pm | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm b/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm index 4e4122362a..1adf09c272 100644 --- a/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm +++ b/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ package UNIVERSAL; -our $VERSION = '1.10'; +our $VERSION = '1.11'; # UNIVERSAL should not contain any extra subs/methods beyond those # that it exists to define. The use of Exporter below is a historical @@ -168,6 +168,11 @@ it will do a comparison and die if the package version is not greater than or equal to C<REQUIRE>, or if either C<$VERSION> or C<REQUIRE> is not a "lax" version number (as defined by the L<version> module). +The return from C<VERSION> will actually be the stringified version object +using the package C<$VERSION> scalar, which is guaranteed to be equivalent +but may not be precisely the contents of the C<$VERSION> scalar. If you want +the actual contents of C<$VERSION>, use C<$CLASS::VERSION> instead. + C<VERSION> can be called as either a class (static) method or an object method. |