Thanks all for your input. I have the require working OK now, although I have two questions:

1). The two forms of require are: 

     require MODULE;
     require "MODULE.pm";

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The first form (according to the book) translates '::' to '/' (on Unix systems), and also treats indirect object notation as methods, whereas the second form requires the '/' path separator and treats indirect object notation as basic function calls. So I really want the first form, so I need to call this with 
     eval "require $module";

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Is this right?

2). I realize though that I need to perform some trickery with the symbol tables, I think. What I want is my module PmLoader.pm to take it's LIST input, and then find and load each of THOSE modules into the main package. As I have it now, it's loading these into the PmLoader package, but not into main. So, as was pointed out, when I say 

     use Pmloader qw( ...args ...);

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it's the same as saying 
     BEGIN {
          require PmLoader;
          PmLoader->import( qw( ...args...));
     }

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But then in PmLoader's import method, if I only call 
     eval "require $module";

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I'm missing the import. But the import needs to be done to main, not to package PmLoader. Can anyone give me a hint how to proceed here?
From the scriptorium annex,
-cadphile

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

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