in reply to Re^4: RFC: Version::Easy
in thread RFC: Version::Easy

"version.pm is loaded anyway in every Perl run using use."

No, it isn't.

$ perl -e'use strict;use warnings;CORE::say for sort keys %INC'
strict.pm
warnings.pm

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Re^6: RFC: Version::Easy
by LanX (Saint) on Jul 14, 2020 at 21:41 UTC
    > No, it isn't.

    Something is ...

    ... running B::Xref on a minimalist script shows the namespace being magically populated 

    t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (""            
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & ()             
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (*             
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (*=            
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (+             
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (+=            
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (-             
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (-=            
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (/             
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (/=            
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (0+            
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (<=>           
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (abs           
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (bool          
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (cmp           
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & (nomethod      
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & _VERSION       
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & boolean        
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & declare        
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & is_alpha       
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & is_qv          
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & new            
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & noop           
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & normal         
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & numify         
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & parse          
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & qv             
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & stringify      
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (definitions)     0 version         & vcmp           
+  subdef
t_float.pl       (main)           3 float           $ VERSION         
+ intro

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     d:\exp\version>type t_float.pl
package float;

our $VERSION = 'v1.0234';

d:\exp\version>

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