So thanks to arturo and tye I got to the bottom of this.

The reason for the difference is that 'require' is a runtime directive whereas 'use' is a compile time directive. Now since I left off the parens on the croak the croak needs to be defined for perl not to get confused. So the way to solve this problem is either use the parens (best choice I would say) or to wrap the require statements in a BEGIN block.

*sigh* So many subtleties, so little time...

BTW: tye provided a little quote in the CB that I think is useful so Ill repeat

Thanks all.

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

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