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Currently, a `use VERSION` declaration is equivalent to something like: use strict; use warnings; use feature ':VERSION'; # the major.minor parts at least As part of the new `builtin` pragma, I think it would be nice to give it version bundles, so that one day we could extend `use VERSION` to having it automatically pull in a versioned builtin bundle as well; e.g. use v5.40; could be equivalent to use strict; use warnings; use feature ':5.40'; use builtin ':5.40'; At this point, I wonder if the strict.pm and warnings.pm ought to recognise version numbers as well, just to add the same mechanism to all four, for consistency and future expansion. That said, I'm not currently sure what such a version declaration would actually mean for these modules; they don't currently change their behaviour dependent on that version. But I think it might be nice to account for some future time at which there might be new strict or warnings flags that only get enabled at some version. -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Next