The answer would be because I understand that is what I am supposed to do because Perl uses underscores in the version number to indicate a development release. This release is currently a development release 0.1_1 with an underscore.

Good answer!

I strongly suspect that it was you eyepopslikeamosquito who directed me towards this practice as you were the one who helpfully provided the information I needed to publish my first module

Yes Bod, I believe you are correct.

The version numbers should be boring link you mentioned by David Golden is indeed listed at Software Versioning links ... which is listed at Writing Solid CPAN Modules.

Update: Re: What do I use to release a module to CPAN for the first time? by davido similarly endorses $VERSION = eval $VERSION ... as do the official Perl docs perlmodstyle (in the Version numbering sub-section). Thanks Bod.

I would conclude our code review meeting by reaching for a towel to wipe the egg off my face. :)

In reply to Re^3: How Critical is Critic? by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread How Critical is Critic? by Bod

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