Re^5: Why eval $version?

I read dagolden's article thrice and my head keeps smoking because of the confusion.

I was wondering if this confusion could be fixed with a new keyword version which accepts all formats and converts them.
Then I realized that numerous tools statically parse .pl/.pm files for $VERSION

My next idea was to introduce magic var $VERSION acting like version (kind of tied scalar) and being automatically part of the package (hence no our required)
Not sure if that's feasable.

My last idea was to look for advice in defining standards ...
(... head has finished smoking, brain is ready to serve now!)

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)

Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

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