package MyModule; use strict; use warnings; use Module::Load; my $dd_loaded; BEGIN { $dd_loaded = eval { autoload Data::Dump; 1; }; use if ! $dd_loaded, 'Data::Dumper'; } _mydump(\%INC); sub _mydump{ my ($ref) = @_; if ($dd_loaded){ print "using Data::Dump dd\n"; dd $ref; } else { print "using Data::Dumper\n"; print Dumper $ref; } }