diff --git a/src/StringViews.jl b/src/StringViews.jl
index 57d9e08..e95fd7c 100644
--- a/src/StringViews.jl
+++ b/src/StringViews.jl
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ a `StringView` is intended to be usable in any context where you might
 have otherwise used `String`.
 """
 module StringViews
+
+# no longer needed after https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/60526
+if !isdefined(Base, :StringView)
+
 export StringView, SVRegexMatch
 
 """
@@ -141,4 +145,6 @@ include("parse.jl")
 include("util.jl")
 include("search.jl")
 
+end
+
 end # module