There's already a built-in version syntax from Perl 5.14 onwards.

package Foo::Bar 1.23;
...;

# or

package Foo::Bar 1.23 {
   ...;
}
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And the PAUSE indexer, etc supports it. It's only a problem if you need to support Perl versions earlier than 5.14.

> There's already a built-in version syntax from Perl 5.14 onwards.

package Foo::Bar 1.23;

from package

> If VERSION is provided, package sets the $VERSION variable in the given namespace to a version object with the VERSION provided.

(emphasize added)

so apparently I've just implemented the same semantic for older versions

Cheers Rolf
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