I had actually thought about these vars, but assumed that require would handle the magic. I'll test it, if it doesn't it's a simple matter of a BEGIN block to split the vars and <s>push</s> unshift them onto @INC.

UPDATE: As Aristotle got around to showing before I did, the vars are heeded

Oh umm, okay... Why not? I actually used require intentionally. Let perl do the heavy lifting ;-) It even works for broken modules which don't return true (but not null length files).

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