note gellyfish <p> <ol> <li> The first is appending '::VERSION' to the value of $x whereas the second is going to look for the variable $VERSION in the package 'x' - it will not expand $x separately. </li> <li>Because there is no variable $x::VERSION defined</li> <li>Because you missed the semicolon after the first print statement.</li> </ol> </p> <p>/J\</p> 373962 373962