G'day beech,

"As you can see import is only called twice when the empty parens aren't present"

I may be missing the point your trying to make here. I would only expect import() to be called twice (once for each 'use G;'). The empty list is intended to stop import() from being called.

From use:

If you do not want to call the package's import method (for instance, to stop your namespace from being altered), explicitly supply the empty list: 

use Module ();

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Although the arguments to use if are (CONDITION, MODULE, ()) — see the 'perl -MO=Deparse ...' line from my OP — I'm resonably sure the third argument (the empty list) is lost due to @_ being flattened; the version of @_, used by goto &work in if::import(), no longer has that empty list.

Anyway, as I said, I think I may be missing some point you're making. If you'd care to clarify, I'd be happy to discuss further.

— Ken

In reply to Re^2: 'if' pragma and modules with an empty import list by kcott
in thread 'if' pragma and modules with an empty import list by kcott

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