package MyModule; use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; use Carp; our $VERSION = 1.08; sub see_me { my $foo = shift; print "\t\tDo you see this: $foo?\n"; } 1; __END__ last line of the module needs to be true; last line of the _file_ need not be true: 0; #### #!/c/opt/perl/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; use Carp; use MyModule 1.05; #use MyModule 1.10; # will fail MyModule::see_me( 8 ); __END__