http://qs1969.pair.com?node_id=11114669


in reply to Re^3: $VERSION in module files
in thread $VERSION in module files

package Foo; our $VERSION = '1.01'; # ... package Foo::Bar; use Foo; our $VERSION = $Foo::VERSION;

If that's in a single file that may work, I'm not sure, however, I suspect at least some of the tools that rely on a static parse won't be able to handle that.