"Could you try explaining this again? In particular, what is the code outside of Moo that causes $_ to exhibit this problem? It probably doesn't help that I'm not clear on how 'undef' ends up in @roles (is the code that does that shown anywhere in this thread?)."

Moo::Role loops through the list of roles with a for loop, using the default loop variable, global $_. (Or rather it did, as this is now fixed.)

In for loops, the loop variable is an alias into the array. If you assign to it, the original array is altered. Thus within that loop, if $_ were assigned to, it would alter the list of roles.

Now, what happens within the loop? The role modules get required. And thus any modules that the role modules use get loaded too. And in all that code that gets loaded, somewhere, undef gets assigned to global $_. (And no, I don't know exactly where... Spreadsheet::WriteExcel has a number of dependencies.)

That's how undef gets into @roles.

"I'm also unclear how the 'uninitialized' warning causes the Role::Tiny module to fail (leading to a "Compilation failed") without producing an error message."

Role::Tiny has:

use warnings FATAL => 'all';

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In reply to Re^9: Moo and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (explain?) by tobyink
in thread Moo and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel by karlgoethebier

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