On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 01:43:59PM -0400, Michael G Schwern wrote:
>  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.

I agree with your reasoning for avoiding our() and version-strings, but I
just want to point out that qr// was added in perl5.005.

Ronald