The Problem

When you want to use say in your script, you can tell Perl 

use v5.10;

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I do not like this style, though, because it does not tell me what feature of 5.10 I need to run the script. A slightly better approach is to add a comment: 

use v5.10; # say

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This is still not much convenient for the author, though: He has to go through several perldeltas to find the first version where the feature appeared. I fined the feature pragma much nicer: 

use feature 'say';

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Unfortunately, not all new syntactic constructs are introduced through the feature pragma. For example, the defined-or operator (//) cannot be introduced in any other way then 

use v5.10; # //

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(You can use a higher version, just to confuse the reader more.)

The Solution

I read through the deltas and wrote Syntax::Construct. It allows you to put the following into your script: 
use Syntax::Construct qw( // ... );

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And similarly for many features I was able to find in the documentation (see the POD section of the pm file for the full list). Comments or pull requests greatly appreciated.

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In reply to RFC: Syntax::Construct by choroba

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