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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2012-11-20 18:08:54 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2012-11-20 18:08:54 +0000
commitc5add2ea5067382269ae6f19e345fda0b9a7bd21 (patch)
tree02f512fda46d93079c9dc59c0d76f0e398150f83 /Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
parent6c35e87bdc5a3f64833dbbc42e7d42e683db9d5b (diff)
perl 5.16.2, compiled without optimization for Windows (from siep)
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@28315 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
index d66d4c5598c..1adf09c2722 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/tlperl/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
package UNIVERSAL;
-our $VERSION = '1.08';
+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
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ check the invocand with C<blessed> from L<Scalar::Util> first:
use Scalar::Util 'blessed';
- if ( blessed( $obj ) && $obj->isa("Some::Class") {
+ if ( blessed( $obj ) && $obj->isa("Some::Class") ) {
...
}
@@ -165,9 +165,13 @@ block or C<blessed> if you need to be extra paranoid.
C<VERSION> will return the value of the variable C<$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>. Both C<$VERSION> or C<REQUIRE>
-must be "lax" version numbers (as defined by the L<version> module)
-or C<VERSION> will die with an error.
+greater than or equal to C<REQUIRE>, or if either C<$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.