$ perl -MSpoo -e 0 Spoo BEGIN Spoo CHECK Spoo INIT Spoo END $ perl -e 'require Spoo' Spoo BEGIN Spoo END $ cat Spoo.pm package Spoo; BEGIN { print "Spoo BEGIN\n"; } END { print "Spoo END\n"; } INIT { print "Spoo INIT\n"; } CHECK { print "Spoo CHECK\n"; } 1; __END__