latest(3pm)

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version 0.03 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

✨ latest(3pm) ✨

okay bestie, we're reading the manual page for latest — it's a Perl module (that's what the 3pm means, iykyk) and it is genuinely so simple it's iconic 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

latest — Use the latest Perl features

🎀 VERSION 🎀

This document describes latest version 0.03

💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

use latest;

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. she's lowkey perfect 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so, the line

use latest;

is roughly equivalent to

use strict;
use warnings;
use $];

except — and this is the part that sends me — use $] doesn't work. 😭 like, it just doesn't. that's the whole reason this module exists, no cap.

the main use case, the moment, the main character energy, is putting

use latest;

at the top of your tests to shake out any obscure problems that might result from your code being used by a program that requires the latest Perl version. so like, you're basically doing a vibe check on your own code before the program does it to you ✨

🌈 CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT 🌈

latest requires no configuration files and no environment variables. zero setup. she shows up ready to go. queen behaviour 👑

⭐ DEPENDENCIES ⭐

None. literally none. not a single one. so unbothered 🌸

💀 INCOMPATIBILITIES 💀

None reported. (reported being the key word here, bestie 🙈)

🎀 BUGS AND LIMITATIONS 🎀

please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-latest@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org>. don't be shy, they wanna hear it 🫶

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>

Copyright (c) 2009, Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

and that's the whole page, fr fr 🌈 this was latest(3pm) from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — mwah, slay, go write some tests 💅💖

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