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in reply to Will the real Internals module please stand up?

They're exposed by UNIVERSAL
http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RGARCIA/perl-5.10.0/universal.c

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Re^2: Will the real Internals module please stand up?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 01, 2009 at 06:12 UTC

    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.)

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