Re: [Module::Build] version.pm and version number comparison problem

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:18 PM, Chris Dolan wrote:

> On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:10 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> That's probably better, but it has its own problems.  What if 
>> someone's overloaded isa() object is trying to throw an exception?  
>> This will throw it away.
>
> Well, if it throws an exception, it's probably not a version instance, 
> right?

Why not?  It could be a version instance that overloads isa() for 
whatever satanic purpose it wants to, and throws an exception, because 
it's evil and it can.

What I really want to know, and what UNIVERSAL::isa() tells me, is 
whether there's an @ISA-chain up to 'version'.

  -Ken