No, that was deliberate. There would be no point in not using use if I did. The whole point is to defer the loading of the module until and if it is needed.

That's exactly the problem. Some of the benefits of "use"ing a module can only be observed when it is done at compile time. This is particularly important when prototypes are involved. For example, the Test::Exception module uses prototypes to allow you to use this syntax:

dies_ok {$foo->method1} 'expecting to die'; For one of my modules, I wanted to use Test::Exception in an eval so that I could skip the tests if Test::Exception was not installed. It didn't work (with the syntax shown above) until I wrapped the eval in a BEGIN block.

In reply to Re^5: When C<use Module;> *not* the same as C<require Module; import Module;>? by itub
in thread When C<use Module;> *not* the same as C<require Module; import Module;>? by BrowserUk

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