this is sometimes called ... "interpretation" (... more technically correct) ... the interpretation phase

I don't recall the Perl documentation or the Camel ever referring to it as that... perhaps you meant "parsing"?

Although the existence of eval and BEGIN really blur the lines, if we're going to be picky about the compilation/runtime phases, then in fact the exit you suggest would be executed during the compilation phase of the main script, causing the rest of the main script after the use to never even be compiled!

Also, it sounds like you're saying that "everyone else on this thread" suggested exit?

In reply to Re^2: Subroutines not exporting? Why? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Subroutines not exporting? Why? by no21

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