Background: I am working with a legacy CGI program that uses cgi-lib.pl and ReadParse(). (I know, don't say it.) I have written some new modules that I use in a file that's required by the main CGI. All this file contains is a single sub. My new modules use CGI.

Here's the strange part... I believe that use is a compile-time thing, and it doesn't matter where in the program the use statements are. However, I've discovered differently. If I use my modules in the required file inside the subroutine, everything works fine. However, if I use my modules outside the sub but still inside the required file, CGI.pm consumes the query string and ReadParse() from cgi-lib.pl comes up with nothing, breaking the whole program.

Does anyone have an explanation for this unexpected behavior?

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It's all fine and dandy until someone has to look at the code.

In reply to "use" location within a program - it matters?? by kwaping

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