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The rather long version (haha) of the reasoning behind evaling the $VERSION is explained here

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Re^2: concerning our $VERSION
by ysth (Canon) on Apr 01, 2011 at 07:24 UTC
    That gets it wrong; the proper incantation suitable for all modules is: 
    our $VERSION = '1.001_001';
our $XS_VERSION = $VERSION; # only needed if you have XS code
$VERSION = eval $VERSION;

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