I'd just quote them.

You could make erroring out on undef in that case an option. If not, I would have to customize your module in order to use it with my existing module.

A few months back I read that version strings had been declared a worse abomination than pseudo hashes and had already been deprecated. Searching for verification, that doesn't appear to be the case.

Update: My existing module is Win32::TieRegistry and a typical use line looks like: 

    my $Reg;
    use Win32::TieRegistry 0.20 (
        TiedRef => \$Reg,
        Delimiter => "/", ArrayValues => 1,
        qw( :REG_ KEY_ALL_ACCESS ),
    );

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where options that take an argument are simply recognized by their value, not by having a leading "-". I'd already hoped to use the version argument to disable some default behavior that I had decided was a mistake, so your module would be a welcome aid. (:

        - tye

In reply to (tye)Re2: Module Design Review - Exporter::VA by tye
in thread Module Design Review - Exporter::VA by John M. Dlugosz

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