What does "use 5.008;" affect?

[Leam Hall]

I've seen code that has "use 5.008_004;" in the files. Yet the code also 
uses tools like Build.PL that came after Perl 5.008. What does the "use 
$perl_version" actually affect?

Thanks!
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