with "use CGI;" you are using the module without specificly importing methods. With "use CGI qw(:standard);" you are asking CGI to export a set of methods marked by the export block :standard.

Example code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
##########################################################
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use CGI;

my $q=new CGI;

print $q->header,$q->start_html(-title=>"blah");
.
.
.etc.
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Another example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

use CGI qw @ :standard @;

print header,start_html(-title=>"blah");

.
.
.
. 
etc.
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FMI: man CGI

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