in reply to run-time module usage

Update and Bonus Question: Consider

# 1 my $m = "Module.pm"; require $m; import $m qw(something); # 2 require "Module.pm"; import "Module.pm" qw(something);

Number one works fine. Number two doesn't. Why? perl complains

String found where operator expected (...) (Do you need to predeclare import?)

and under Windows, I even get a Out of Memory