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in reply to Perl 5.11.1 released

Package declarations can now include a version number.
huh? To replace $VERSION? That sounds a little odd to me.

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Re^2: Perl 5.11.1 released
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 21, 2009 at 16:38 UTC
    No, to set $VERSION 
    package Foo 1.23;

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    is roughly the same as 
    package Foo;
BEGIN { our $VERSION = 1.23; }

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      Nice, because it is symmetric to use Foo 1.07.

      Alexander

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