use vars qw($VERSION);$VERSION=1.3; is needed only if you want compatibility with ancient versions of perl 5 (older than 5.6.0).

our $VERSION=1.3; works perfectly with any perl since 5.6.0 (released 9.5 years ago).

$main::VERSION=1.3; is just wrong, unless you want to set the VERSION of the main package. Did you mean $What::Ever::Package::VERSION=1.3;? That should work with every perl 5.x, but needs more typing.

Alexander

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In reply to Re: use vars vs our vs $main:: for $VERSION by afoken
in thread use vars vs our vs $main:: for $VERSION by bv

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