The UNIVERSAL Package
Learn about the built-in UNIVERSAL package, the ancestor of all other packages.
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Perl’s built-in UNIVERSAL package is the ancestor of all other packages—it’s the ultimate parent class in an object-oriented sense. UNIVERSAL provides a few methods for its children to use, inherit, or override.
The VERSION() method
The VERSION() method returns the value of the $VERSION variable of the invoking
package or class. If we provide a version number as an optional parameter,
the method will throw an exception if the queried $VERSION is not equal to or
greater than the parameter.
Given a HowlerMonkey module of version 1.23, its VERSION() method behaves as
follows:
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