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On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 09:10:41AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:57 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote: > > But honestly, isn't it time we figured out what's the *correct* thing to do, and do that? Maybe scope it with `use v5.10` or even `use v5.16`, and then just do that? Time to find a solution and end the pain (not to mention the arguments). > > I would support having "package NAME VERSION" automatically upgrade > VERSION to a version object. I think right now it just puts it as a > string in $NAME::VERSION. That syntax already requires a valid > version string -- not "3.0crap" or anything like that. $ perl -E'package Foo 1.23; say ref($VERSION)' version -doy