Re^2: Will the real Internals module please stand up?

[ikegami]

Why isn't it documented? How official is this? For example, can I rely on

our $VERSION = version::qv('1.0.0');

without doing use version; first? (Ignore compatibility with 5.8.)

[Anonymous Monk]

I don't know, appears to be a case of "some patch got accepted"

[ysth]

can I rely on our $VERSION = version::qv('1.0.0'); without doing use version; first?

In counter-example, the utf8 and Win32 doc specifically say what can be assumed to be available without loading the module, so unless you can find a similar guarantee in the version doc, I think you'd be overly trusting to do so.