Sorry. I was mis-interpreting the output, but I tried something else

I commented out  #Err "NOT IMPLEMENTED YET."; line 183 of VA.pm and ran the following script. 

package C1; use M1 v1.0 qw/&foo bar baz quux bazola $ztesch --dump/;
#package C2; use M2 v1.0 qw/ foo baz $ztesch :tag1 --dump/;
package C3; use M3 v1.0 qw/foo --dump/; print "so what?\n";
package C4; use M2 v2.3.4.5 qw/foo baz --dump/;

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M3 was imported, but M2 fails with a version check failure, so I replaced the last line above with

package C4; use M2 v1.0 qw/foo baz --dump/;

And that gave me identical results. M3 imported, M2 fails?

Output

C:\test\EVA>test1
+++ I'm here!  Exporter::VA import VERSION
module M1 loaded
+++ I'm here!  M1 &foo bar baz quux bazola $ztesch --dump
%EXPORT = bless( (
                   '&foo' => '&foo',
                   '&baz' => '',
                   '--verbose_import' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.&unknown_type' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.&begin' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '$ztesch' => '',
                   '.&unknown_import' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '..worklist' => {
                                     'C1::baz' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                                     'C1::ztesch' => \undef,
                                     'C1::foo' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                                     'C1::bazola' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                                     'C1::quux' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                                     'C1::bar' => sub { "DUMMY" }
                                   },
                   '&quux' => \$EXPORT{'..worklist'}{'C1::quux'},
                   '..home' => 'M1',
                   '--dump' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.&end' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.warnings' => 1,
                   '..client_default_version' => {
                                                   'C1' => '☺ '
                                                 },
                   '&bar' => 'internal_bar',
                   '&bazola' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.check_user_option' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.&unknown_feature' => sub { "DUMMY" }
                 ), 'Exporter::VA' );

+++ I'm here!  Exporter::VA :normal HASH(0x1f37668)
module M3 loaded
+++ I'm here!  M3 foo --dump
%EXPORT = bless( (
                   '.&unknown_import' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '..worklist' => {},
                   '&foo' => [
                               '☺ ',
                               sub { "DUMMY" },
                               '☻ ',
                               sub { "DUMMY" }
                             ],
                   '--verbose_import' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '..home' => 'M3',
                   '.default_VERSION' => '☺♥',
                   '--dump' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.&unknown_type' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.&end' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.warnings' => 1,
                   '.&begin' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '..client_default_version' => {
                                                   'C3' => '☺ '
                                                 },
                   '.check_user_option' => sub { "DUMMY" },
                   '.&unknown_feature' => sub { "DUMMY" }
                 ), 'Exporter::VA' );

+++ I'm here!  Exporter::VA :normal HASH(0x1f349e0)
module M2 loaded
M2 does not define $M2::VERSION--version check failed at C:\test\EVA\t
+est1.pl line 4.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\test\EVA\test1.pl line 4.

C:\test\EVA>

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Then I moved the first M2 line below the M3 line; and again M3 imports but the M2 line--that works above it--fails when moved below it?

Again, I don't know if this helps any, but I thought I'd pass the information along in case it does. If this is another red-herring and you'd prefer not to get any more, just say so and I'll stop:).

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: import() not getting called. Huh? by BrowserUk
in thread import() not getting called. Huh? by John M. Dlugosz

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