In my Debug.pm file, it make a difference whether I put the "use" statements before or after the package declaration...


If I put them as this, I get undefined subroutine: 
use File::Copy qw(copy);
use IO::File;

package Mods::Debug;
  [...stuff...]
    copy($file1, $file2);

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I can either move the "use" statements after the package declaration or I can explicitely call copy with File::Copy::copy(...)

But "copy()" has been @EXPORTed in the module...so I am confused ;-)

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In reply to where to use "use" and package by smackdab

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