> Can you think of a way?

IMHO the problem is at another place.

It's OK that ->import() is not required to exist inside a package (or let's say I doubt that this can be changed in a backwards compatible way).

But trying to call a method on a non-existing package could fail. I.e. use could check if the MODULE-name exists in the right capitalization after require.*

But for reasons that I do not understand yet does require auto-vivify the misspelled package.

DB<7> require DaTa::DuMpEr DB<8> x grep {/dumper/i} %DaTa:: 0 'DuMpEr::' 1 *DaTa::DuMpEr:: DB<9>

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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*) or if it exists twice in different capitalizations.


In reply to Re^3: Module name case typo silent failure by LanX
in thread Module name case typo silent failure by Anonymous Monk

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