Jan Dubois wrote: > -our $VERSION = '1.18'; > +our $VERSION = '1.18_01'; John Peacock replied: > $VERSION = eval ($VERSION); > will prevent the warning. I'll add this in the next (4th) patch for threads module. One question though: Should this be all on one line: our $VERSION = '1.21_01'; $VERSION = eval ($VERSION); or two: our $VERSION = '1.21_01'; $VERSION = eval ($VERSION); so as to keep CPAN, ExtUtils::MakeMaker, etc. happy?