Good point. I was thinking of the general case when the module name is in a scalar. But I couldn't come up with a good example of that for the first example. Of course, you can try converting "::"s to the appropriate directory separators and adding on ".pm", put I think porting that to VMS would be some work (I'd probably pull in parts of MakeMaker).

But for the example I came up with, your solution is superior.