I prefer 

$VERSION = '1.00';

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over any of your alternatives above. Now you might wonder how I handle strict. Fact is I don't. I don't have stricture enabled until I have done the assignment to $VERSION and other globals I don't plan to type again.

being able to localise access to scary things like globals to just where I need them

Just a clarification. I've seen people declare the same variable twice but one should not do 

sub foo {
  our $foo;
  ...
}
sub bar { ... }
sub baz {
  our $foo;   # BAD!
  ...
}

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to avoid access to $foo inside &bar. Use some other scope trick for that if it's needed. One misses a great point of having the declaration if one does it more than once for the same variable.

ihb

See perltoc if you don't know which perldoc to read!

In reply to Re^2: Examples fo Where "our" is really needed by ihb
in thread Examples fo Where "our" is really needed by geekondemand

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