Why do you need to require() in a separate BEGIN block? the statement 

  use PmLoader qw{ ...args... }

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is equivalent of 

  BEGIN
  {
       require PmLoader;
       PmLoader->import( qw{ ...args... } );
  }

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so you're already in a BEGIN block. Why not just require() everything at the end of import()?

As to using require() with variable names.. you need to do either of these:

   require BAREWORD;
   require $filename; ## or require 'filename'

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So what happens when you want to do the equivalent of 

   require CLASS::NAME;

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but the "CLASS::NAME" portion is in a variable? well, eval(), of course, but you need to use eval STRING, not eval BLOCK:

   my $module = "CLASS::NAME";
   eval "require $module";
   if( $@ ) {
      die $@;
   }

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If you do eval{ require $module }, then require would try to load a file named "CLASS::NAME", which most likely don't exist

HTH

In reply to Re: use/require $MODULE (a variable) by lestrrat
in thread use/require $MODULE (a variable) by cadphile

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