From: Ryan Pavlik <rpav@...>
Date: 2004-01-06T07:49:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel::VERSION

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:21:41 +0900
oinkoink+unet@rexx.com (Bret Jolly) wrote:

> There used to be a constant of this name, which I was using
> in programs to figure out which version of Ruby the user had.
> It seems to be gone in Ruby version 1.8.1.  What should I
> use instead?

    $ irb
    irb(main):001:0> VERSION
    => "1.8.1"
    irb(main):002:0> Kernel::VERSION
    NameError: uninitialized constant Kernel::VERSION
            from (irb):2

Looks like it's just not Kernel::VERSION.

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Ryan Pavlik <rpav@mephle.com>

"Oh for the love of evil, not this again." - 8BT