in reply to Re: Perl 5.11.1 released
in thread Perl 5.11.1 released

No, to set $VERSION
package Foo 1.23;
is roughly the same as
package Foo; BEGIN { our $VERSION = 1.23; }

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Re^3: Perl 5.11.1 released
by afoken (Chancellor) on Oct 21, 2009 at 16:43 UTC

    Nice, because it is symmetric to use Foo 1.07.

    Alexander

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