On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:53:59AM -0500, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
>  vstrings are not the same as VERSION and not many people seem to be using
>  them in their modules.

FWIW I don't use them for the same reason I avoid qr(), our(), etc...
Backwards compatibility with pre-5.6 perls.  They're not good enough
reason on their own to break it.  If I'm going to bust compatibility
for some other reason, then I'll use them if I remember.

But still, $VERSION = '0.42' is plenty.


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