On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 1:56 PM, David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com> wrote: > What's the preferred way to get the version for a package, then? $Foo::VERSION? Never cared for the direct package access syntax. Flip the question around. Why do you need to get the version for a package and do you really need the version or do you need to do an operation on the version that could be encapsulated by something else? -- David