true::VERSION(3pm)

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💖 true::VERSION — the whole manual page, bestie 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from the Perl User Contributed Documentation section of the manual, and it's filed under true::VERSION(3pm). it's tiny. it's iconic. let's go ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

true::VERSION — it's a shim, and its whole job is letting other modules depend on true.pm 🫶

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: this module exists purely to work around bugs in the dependency system that stop modules from depending on true. like, the dependency machinery is being messy and gatekeeping, so we made a workaround. periodt 💅

so instead of depending on true, you depend on true::VERSION — with the same version number. that's the move. that's the whole trick. 🎀

also, little lore drop: this module was introduced with version 0.16 of true. so like, it's been here. it's a legacy queen. 👑

fr fr just point your dependency at true::VERSION instead, and let the shim do its thing. no cap. 🙈

and that's the entire page, we ate and left no crumbs 💅✨

cute lil sign-off: this page came from perl v5.42.3 and it's dated 2026-08-22 — so yeah, timestamped and everything, mwah 🍓🧚💜

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