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| author | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-01-19 10:14:32 -0500 |
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| committer | David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org> | 2010-01-19 10:14:32 -0500 |
| commit | bd12309b58376140a53f4d708bb325f48df1ff70 (patch) | |
| tree | 2ac25a970d843022f8bdf6c993fcd3d452d1f7bf /lib/UNIVERSAL.pm | |
| parent | 916254008628ddf01ee5de6c872bd94a9b535593 (diff) | |
| download | perl-bd12309b58376140a53f4d708bb325f48df1ff70.tar.gz | |
note strict/lax version requirements in documentation
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm b/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm index 35297431ec..d11b893db9 100644 --- a/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm +++ b/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm @@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ block or C<blessed> if you need to be extra paranoid. C<VERSION> will return the value of the variable C<$VERSION> in the package the object is blessed into. If C<REQUIRE> is given then it will do a comparison and die if the package version is not -greater than or equal to C<REQUIRE>. +greater than or equal to C<REQUIRE>. Both C<$VERSION> or C<REQUIRE> +must be "lax" version numbers (as defined by the L<version> module) +or C<VERSION> will die with an error. C<VERSION> can be called as either a class (static) method or an object method. |