I thought it would be neat to use the perlver module to automatically detect and "use" the minimum version of Perl. But "use" does not seem to accept variables (tried many ways), while "require" takes vars but "Can't locate 5.nnn in @INC". Is this sort of thing even possible? Thanks 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

BEGIN {
  goto DONE unless eval { require Perl::MinimumVersion };
  my $v = Perl::MinimumVersion->new(__FILE__);
  $v = $v->minimum_version;
# use     $v; # no way jose, can't eval either
# require $v; # Can't locate 5.nnn in @INC
# warn    $v; # FYI
  DONE:
}

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