Greetings, honorable monks, I have two modules:

##### a.pm #####
package a;
use b;

sub import {
  print "import in $_[0] called from ". (caller(1))[3] ." \n";
}

1;
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##### b.pm #####
package b;
use a;

sub import {
  print "import in $_[0] called from ". (caller(1))[3] ." \n";
}

1;
[download]

and a script:

### test.pl ###
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use a;
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Running this script prints:

import in b called from a::BEGIN
import in a called from main::BEGIN
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Whereas I would expect there to be another "import in a called from b::BEGIN" at the beginning, from the "use a;" in b.pm. I know that each module is only compiled once, but import should be called each time, and there are three "use" statements, so shouldn't there be three imports?

Thanks in advance,
Aaron

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