In the past I have sometimes written perl code that goes something like this 
my $souperdouper=0; 
eval { require "SuperDouperPrinter" } and $superdouper=1; 

if ($souperdouper)
{
   SouperDouperPrinter::Print($something); 
} 
else
{
   print $something; 
}

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Its a case of if certain facilities are available, then I would like to use them and if not then I will get by without. Sometimes there is more than one module available to do something and I want my code to work with either and not fall over if my particular favourite is missing. The above works fine if I can use require, but not all modules will work with a simple require. What is the recomended way to code this and still be able to utilise a "use" statement?

In reply to How can I catch a failure of use? by Anonymous Monk

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