Quoting PodMaster quoting me:

(currently, Exporter::import() is called whenever you use a module that doesn't define any import method at all, even it that module doesn't even mention Exporter -- this will probably be "fixed" at some point but with this you can "fix" it now and see if you are using any modules that depend on this "bug").

I was a bit inaccurate there. That is only true if you have already required UNIVERSAL.pm because that file contains: 

    require Exporter;
    *import = \&Exporter::import;

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which is what causes this surprising behavior.

I really think UNIVERSAL::import needs to be made smarter so that it only calls Exporter::import if called as UNIVERSAL->import( ... ). It is nice that you can do use UNIVERSAL qw( isa can ); but it is not nice to have every package suddenly "inherit" Exporter::import whether it wants to or not just because UNIVERSAL.pm has been required by some other part of the script.

The only other piece of the mystery is that Tk::Widget does require UNIVERSAL; (and probably isn't the only place where UNIVERSAL.pm gets requested as a result of use Tk, but that is where the debugger found it being loaded).

                - tye

In reply to Re^2: Tk helps another package to export? by tye
in thread Tk helps another package to export? by tall_man

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