$ cat AAA.pm package AAA; use warnings; use strict; use Exporter 'import'; BEGIN { our @EXPORT = qw/aaa/ } use BBB; sub aaa { print "I am aaa()\n"; bbb(0) if shift; } 1; $ cat BBB.pm package BBB; use warnings; use strict; use Exporter 'import'; BEGIN { our @EXPORT = qw/bbb/ } use AAA; sub bbb { print "I am bbb()\n"; aaa(0) if shift; } 1; $ cat test.pl #!/usr/bin/env perl use warnings; use strict; use AAA; use BBB; aaa(1); bbb(1); $ perl test.pl I am aaa() I am bbb() I am bbb() I am aaa() $