I would like to emulate a module feature that I see in Test::More in my own module. I am able to set the number of tests on the same line that the use statement appears. For example: 

  use Test::More tests => 5;

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What I'm seeing is that Test::More implements sub import, which has, as its 2nd and 3rd element of @_ the pair tests => 5, and so it uses splice to extract the pair, then punts the remainder of @_ using: 
  __PACKAGE__->_export_to_level(1, __PACKAGE__, @imports);

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The question is: is this really the way it should be done? Is there a simpler way to achieve this? Thank you all. I am using 5.8.0 and 5.8.4.

In reply to "use" modifiers by pbeckingham

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