Greetings,

O! wise ones, I need your wisdom on the usage of "use":

I have 3 perl modules..

Foo.pm: 

   package Foo;
   use strict;
 
   sub foo {
     print "Foo\n";
   }
   1;

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Bar.pm: 
   package Bar;
   use strict;
   use Foo;

   sub bar {
    print "Bar\n";
   }
   1;

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Now in a third perl module: Something.pm 
 package Something;
 use strict;

 use Bar;
 ....
 Foo::foo;
 1;

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I expected an error in Something.pm, for calling Foo::foo, when the package "Foo" was not used in package Something. However this works perfectly. I have read the "use" inheritance thread and the perldoc use ..

1. Is this a good practise ?
2. How does this work ?

P.S: I run perl v5.8.5

In reply to use enlightenment by InfiniteLoop

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