Yes, but you don't want to use "use" to do it, because it acts at compile time (it has an implicit BEGIN wrapped around it already). On the other hand requre acts at runtime, which means it can be used to conditionally load modules as needed. If you want it to behave like use, though, you also need to call import on the module, right after doing a require.

There's a gotcha to require semantics though, it requires a "bareword", which is fine if you want to do something like this: 

if ($DEBUG) {
  require Data::Dumper;
  import Data::Dumper;
}

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But if you want to put the module names in variables, then you'll probably need something like this: 

my @debug_modules = qw( Data::Dumper CGI Test::Deep );
foreach my $mod (@debug_modules) {
   eval "require $mod";
   import $mod;
}

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(Note, some folks are down on eval STRING, but this is a case where it's necessary.)

If you want to read up on this, look into things like "perlmod", and the "use" and "require" sections of "perlfunc". Do not however, waste your time looking for "import" in perlfunc. It's not a "function", it's more like a reserved name for a subroutine.

In reply to Re: Controlling "use" statements by doom
in thread Controlling "use" statements by nodice

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