It's not. It's not true that you should use require to prevent import to be called. It's just one way of doing so.
I said 'should' as it implied advice, as I was also aware of your use approach. And (to me) it's nothing to do with preventing calling import. I'm of the opinion require is appropriate because we just want to bring in Exporter's code, we're not concerned with its import method and whether it's called or not at that point, and generally the distinction between run-time and compile-time is irrelevant when one is using Exporter (since it'll generally be wrapped in an implicit BEGIN block when the module is useed) so nothing is gained by use (or lost by it, as I said, c'est la vie).
To me it smells like cargo-cult.
Perhaps, but seeing as how I know what I'm doing when I say require Exporter and why I'm choosing not to use Exporter (), that kinda stops cargo-cult smell right about there.
HTH

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In reply to Re: Re: Module Inheritance by broquaint
in thread Module Inheritance by ronniec

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