Thanks both Dave and roboticus,

The thing that I actually tried to solve was slightly different, but I decided to simplify the question because I just knew the problem was how I was using the import function.

What I was trying to do was:

# Foo
package Foo ;
use strict ;
use warnings ;
require Exporter ;
our @ISA = qw( Exporter ) ;
our @EXPORT_OK = qw( saySomethingElse ) ;
# sub import {
#     Foo->export_to_level( 1, @_ ) ;
# }
sub saySomethingElse {
    print "Good morning!\n" ;
}
1 ;

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# Bar
package Bar ;
use strict ;
use warnings ;
use base qw( Foo ) ;
1 ;

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In the next code, I wanted both lines to work because I am sometimes using the module Foo and sometimes the module Bar. The 'use Bar...' line refused to work.

# main
use Bar qw ( saySomethingElse ) ;
# use Foo qw ( saySomethingElse ) ;
saySomethingElse() ;

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Now that I have the import function correct, I got this to work

Thanks again to both of you! ++

In reply to Re^2: Exporter. Correct way to override import? by Veltro
in thread Exporter. Correct way to override import? by Veltro

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