Im curious if anyone can explain why 
 
require Carp;
Carp::croak "This will produce a compile time error.";

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wont compile '(Do you need to predeclare Carp::croak?)' but 
 
use Carp;
Carp::croak "This will compile fine.";

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is fine and so is 
 
use warnings;
require Carp;
Carp::croak "And so will this.";

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I know that warnings does the use Carp; so the two are the same really, but why should it make a difference if Carp is used or required when the usage is via a fully qualified function call? I mean using a different module as the example works fine, so whats with Carp?

require Data::Dumper;
print Data::Dumper::Dumper([qw(This is good too)]);

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Thanks in advance...

Yves / DeMerphq
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In reply to 'require Carp;' has differnet meanings under 'use warnings;'? by demerphq

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