latest - Use the latest Perl features

latest documentation Contained in the latest distribution.

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NAME

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latest - Use the latest Perl features

VERSION

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This document describes latest version 0.03

SYNOPSIS

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  use latest;

DESCRIPTION

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The line

  use latest;

is roughly equivalent to

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use $];

except that 'use $]' doesn't work.

The main use case is to

  use latest;

at the top of your tests to shake out any obscure problems that might result from your code being used by a program that requires the latest Perl version.

CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT

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latest requires no configuration files or environment variables.

DEPENDENCIES

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None.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

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None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

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Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-latest@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.

AUTHOR

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Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

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Copyright (c) 2009, Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

latest documentation Contained in the latest distribution. 
package latest::feature;

BEGIN {
  eval 'require feature';
  if ( $@ ) {
    eval 'sub import {}';    # NOP if we don't have feature
  }
  else {
    our @ISA = qw( feature );
    eval 'sub unknown_feature_bundle {}'; # Ignore unknown bundle errors
  }
}

package latest;

use warnings;
use strict;
use version;

use Carp;


our $VERSION = '0.03';


sub import {
  strict->import;
  warnings->import;
  ( my $v = version->new( $] )->normal ) =~ s/^v/:/;
  latest::feature->import( $v );
}

1;
__END__