If you don't supply an import method for a package, it fails silently without warning. This goes for packages that... well... don't exist at all.

They're two separate issues. Given Foo->bar(), when Foo exists but Foo::bar doesn't, it goes though Autoload, ISA, etc. all the way up to UNIVERSAL. There is a &UNIVERSAL::import, though tye thinks it's a bug.

But what if Foo doesn't exist? Shouldn't that be a different kind of error? It surely would run into problems when it tried to use &Foo::AUTOLOAD, @Foo::ISA, etc., so I can only suppose that this is intentional behavior!

—John

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