He says that he read somewhere that if "use" is called twice on the same module, then the BEGIN blocks of that module are executed twice
Nope, just the import sub is called. The actual file being included isn't even touched on the second use as its existence has already been noted in %INC so that further proves that the BEGIN blocks are not touched. If written in pure perl use would look something like this 
use File::Spec::Functions;

sub use {
  my($pkg, @args) = @_;

  my(@dirs, $file) = split '::', $pkg;
  my $path = catfile @dirs, "$file.pm";

  return if exists $INC{$path};

  my $fullpath = catfile(
    (grep { -f cafile($_, $path) } @INC)[0], $path
  );
  my $code = IO::File->new($fullpath) or die "$!";
  $INC{$path} = $fullpath;
  eval $code->getlines;
  $file->import(@args);
}

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Of course it's missing the code references in %INC implementation, and it's totally untested, but it should give you some idea of how use actually works.
HTH

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broquaint

In reply to Re: use and BEGIN by broquaint
in thread use and BEGIN by tall_man

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