Hi, all:
I'm trying to write a multi-source-file program without the mess of Module.

Someone told me that I can use 'require' as '#include' to do that. So I write the following test program. 

system "pwd";
# a.pl in the current directory contains the implementation of &tpack.
require "a.pl";
require "./a.pl";

&tpack;

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Actually I saw the '.' in the perllib path displayed in the error msg of 'use'. So I think the './' is not necessary. But either of the above 'require' line will give a fatal error (depending on which line appears ealier. 
a.pl did not return a true value at ./require.plx line 7.

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Could anybody tell me what's wrong and how shall I make it?

In reply to #include equivalent in Perl. by dislimit

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