I mean absolutely no derision as I point this out, but I do find humor in the situation: You're using features which were introduced later than 5.005_03 to detect whether or not the interpretter is later than 5.005_03. Neither $^V nor v-strings exist in 5.005_03.

You probably want your conditional to be:

   if ($] and $] < 5.006)
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It works under 5.5 and under 5.6/5.8 as well. I know I've got to be one of the few monks around here that still lives in 5.005_03.