Greetings,

Things popping up from my thought pool:

• Do your glob setting in a BEGIN block (that'll settle the load time requirement, methinks).
• If import is tied up you can hook the lesser known export_fail. For instance, from Carp.pm:
  

  @EXPORT_FAIL = qw(verbose);    # hook to enable verbose mode
  # if the caller specifies verbose usage 
  #("perl -MCarp=verbose script.pl")
  # then the following method will be called 
  # by the Exporter which knows
  # to do this thanks to @EXPORT_FAIL, above.  
  #$_[1] will contain the word
  # 'verbose'.
  sub export_fail {
      shift;
      $Verbose = shift if $_[0] eq 'verbose';
      return @_;
  }
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• I would also override the set_globals method - but that may be voided by other specs, I dunno.
• The author of the base class should 'use strict' ;)

Cheers,
alf

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