What does your environment look like? Personally, I write scripts that will run on my employer's web server. I know what versions of Perl are installed and where they are located on the server. The programs don't need to be version aware, because they are in a controled enviroment.

Now, if I was writing code that would be released to the public, I'd be a little stricter about version control.

The question of when to drop old software is not a small one. There will probably be somebody running Win 3.1 in 2057. It won't be pretty, and there will only be a few geezers around that remember how to work the fool thing, but if it gets the job done . . .

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I wanted to explore how Perl's closures can be manipulated, and ended up creating an object system by accident.
-- Schemer

Note: All code is untested, unless otherwise stated

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