"Well, they don't try to redefine perl version. They detect a version nobody supports anymore, and disable a feature -- no faking perl version"

I don't think kamal is claiming that the code posted does redefine the Perl version. I think he means that if you load DBIx::Class::Carp like this:

BEGIN {
   local $] = 5.008004;
   require DBIx::Class::Carp;
   DBIx::Class::Carp->import;
};

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... you can trick DBIx::Class::Carp into thinking it's running on an older Perl version.

And no, I wouldn't recommend doing that, because it'll be fragile. DBIx::Class::Carp is loaded in multiple places, it's only the version from the first time it's loaded that takes effect.

package Cow { use Moo; has name => (is => 'lazy', default => sub { 'Mooington' }) } say Cow->new->name

In reply to Re^2: using local $] = 5.008004; by tobyink
in thread using local $] = 5.008004; by kamal

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