package Foo; our $VERSION = '1.0'; use strict; use warnings; sub new { my $class = shift(); my ($arguments) = @_; my $self = {}; bless $self, $class; } #### #!/tool/bin/perl -w use strict; use lib '/home/user/perl_modules/lib/perl5'; use My::Foo 1.0; printf("version = %s\n", $Foo::VERSION);