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From:
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
Date:
July 3, 2020 23:28
Subject:
Re: Announcing Perl 7
Message ID:
20200704002841.392dbdba@shy.leonerd.org.uk
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 20:20:04 +0200
demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
> I want this:
> ---
> package Whatever;
> use v7;
> ---
> to not be an error. I don't want to have to write:
>
> ---
> use v7;
> package Whatever;
> ---
Not that it matters much to the argument, but I have just found a very
minor reason to want to `use VERSION` even before your package
statement.
Perl 5.12 added the "package NAME VERSION;" syntax, meaning you can
write
package Whatever 1.23;
instead of the more longwinded
package Whatever;
our $VERSION = 1.23;
Perl older than 5.12 will get upset:
$ perl5.10.1 Whatever.pm
syntax error at Whatever.pm line 1, near "package Whatever 1.23"
Execution of Whatever.pm aborted due to compilation errors.
Not a huge problem, but if you write
use v5.12;
package Whatever 1.23;
then at least you get a prettier error message that doesn't confuse
users so much:
$ perl5.10.1 Whatever.pm
Perl v5.12.0 required--this is only v5.10.1, stopped at Whatever.pm line 1.
--
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
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