Thanks, I hadn't come across autouse before, and it would certainly solve the problem of scattering requires through ones code to have: 

use autouse 'This::Module';
use autouse 'That::Module';

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At the top of the code. Interestingly though, autouse fails in this particular instance where my quick (and perhaps OO centric) kludge up didn't, because DDS implements an import method:

autoused module has unique import() method at autouse.pl line 5

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with the following code: 

use strict;
use warnings;

use autouse 'Data::Dump::Streamer'=>qw(Dump);
use autouse 'No::Such::Module';

print "foo\n";

my %hash = (    1=>'one',
                2=>'two',
                3=>'three'      );

Dump(%hash);

my $dds = Data::Dump::Streamer->new;

$dds->Dump(%hash)->Out();

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Note: I'd tried both OO & non OO interface, hence the inclusion of two calls to Dump - with the Dump(%hash); line commented out it fails with: 

Can't locate object method "new" via package "Data::Dump::Streamer" (p
+erhaps you forgot to load "Data::Dump::Streamer"?) at autouse.pl line
+ 15.

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In reply to Re^4: Use and Require - making an informed choice. by g0n
in thread Use and Require - making an informed choice. by g0n

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