I just read the whole perlmod you sent, and I guess I was looking at an abridged version previously... It did have much greater detail...

One thing that seems odd...
our (@ISA,@EXPORT,@EXPORT_OK);
BEGIN {
  @ISA =       qw(Exporter);
  @EXPORT =    qw(debugOn);
  @EXPORT_OK = qw();
}

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The begin doesn't work without the our before it... is our also implicitly a BEGIN? otherwise I wouldn't think the our should effect the BEGIN block as it shouldn't even get executed until after the BEGIN block is done.

and finally it didn't explicitly say some things that I think I can infer from the way things appear to function, so correct me if I am wrong on any of the below.
compilation starts on the top script file...
Whenever a use, or a require in a BEGIN block (or is require implicitly a BEGIN as well?), or anything of that sort is encountered, it stops processing the current file and switches to that one, and doesn't return until that one is totally complete (as in not just the BEGIN blocks of the second file). And if it hits a use of a module it is already in the middle of processing, all it will do is call that modules import sub, and not try to compile it's code a second time (thus preventing loops).
Sound right?
Randell

In reply to Re^7: repeated use of module and EXPORT by rpelak
in thread repeated use of module and EXPORT by rpelak

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