That's fine. Bear in mind, though, that requiring a module at runtime may change the overall behaviour of your code. After requiring a module, the namespace of that module is globally visible, and requiring it may change the inheritance chain (?). If the runtime-required modules define symbols that are deferred to be handled via AUTOLOAD by modules which have the current (requiring module) in its @ISA, strange and hard to debug things might happen.

I feel at ease only if my overall code architecture is built upon runtime loading, or if I require modules as a last resort, e.g. 

sub bail_out {
    require Carp;
    Carp::confess(@_);
}

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I'd use a module like Cwd up front, btw. Consider AutoLoader. Likewise, you can define a namespace of a module without actually loading it, and declare stubs for methods/subroutines like 

package Cwd;
sub cwd;
package main; # or whatever module you are in
...

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which will be defined only after the subroutine that requires the module has been called.
This is a dark corner I have to lighten up for myself, yet.

--shmem 

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

In reply to Re: Is it ok to require a module in a sub or method? by shmem
in thread Is it ok to require a module in a sub or method? by leocharre

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