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We should leave in the UNIVERSAL::VERSION functionality of course.
If everyone did this, a new, improved C<use> that was aware of
multiple installed versions could eval each one's VERSION method
and install the first one that lives
# Uncomment and edit when version incompatibilities are introduced:
#
# sub VERSION{
# $_[1] < 2.3 and die <<EOF;
# version 2.3 and later releases of Foo::Bar take an
# array-reference as the eighth argument to baz()
# EOF
# $_[1] > $VERSION and die <<EOF;
# asking for Foo::Bar version $_[1] and this is only $VERSION
# EOF
# };
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