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On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:50 AM, David Golden wrote: > To say that differently -- VERSION requires things to be upgradeable > to version objects not because version objects are inherently > desirable in themselves, but because it's what happens internally > during "use NAME VERSION" checks. > > Having UNIVERSAL::VERSION return a useful value was probably a poor > API choice in retrospect. *sigh* What's the preferred way to get the version for a package, then? $Foo::VERSION? Never cared for the direct package access syntax. Best, David