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| author | Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com> | 1996-02-09 00:08:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu> | 1996-02-09 00:08:35 +0000 |
| commit | d5e40bcc74e8447e12fdce80e14fb4fe6ee63b3e (patch) | |
| tree | bda1d9fa871a730a63fc1288208ed67a8c455ee7 /lib | |
| parent | 1a4c28899c9c5bf6dab01740f031e24f77cac253 (diff) | |
| download | perl-d5e40bcc74e8447e12fdce80e14fb4fe6ee63b3e.tar.gz | |
Make note about numerical version numbers. (Part of mm 5.21 patch)
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Exporter.pm | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Exporter.pm b/lib/Exporter.pm index 90a41d644b..343b9fbd17 100644 --- a/lib/Exporter.pm +++ b/lib/Exporter.pm @@ -326,9 +326,9 @@ The Exporter module supplies a default require_version method which checks the value of $VERSION in the exporting module. Since the default require_version method treats the $VERSION number as -a simple numeric value it will regard version 1.10 and being lower -than 1.9. For this reason it is strongly recommended that you use -numbers with at least two decimal places, e.g., 1.09. +a simple numeric value it will regard version 1.10 as lower than +1.9. For this reason it is strongly recommended that you use numbers +with at least two decimal places, e.g., 1.09. =head2 Managing Unknown Symbols @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ you to easily add tagged sets of symbols to @EXPORT or @EXPORT_OK: Exporter::export_ok_tags('bar'); # add aa, cc and dd to @EXPORT_OK Any names which are not tags are added to @EXPORT or @EXPORT_OK -unchanged but will trigger a warning (with -w) to avoid misspelt tags +unchanged but will trigger a warning (with C<-w>) to avoid misspelt tags names being silently added to @EXPORT or @EXPORT_OK. Future versions may make this a fatal error. |