Regardless of the state of the guts, I guess that the question is: Why is the statement require URI;, which is executed after the print (and, more importantly, the defined test), changing the result of it? It must be that something in the mere compilation of require URI; is changing the execution of the rest of the program, right?

I originally thought that it must be that the act of compilation creates the glob for future reference, but you say that this is not so. How do you use exists to test for the existence of a glob? (Is that what you're doing in Re^2: require at compile time? below?) According to the documentation, it can only be used on hash or array lookups, or subroutine names.

In reply to Re^3: require at compile time? by JadeNB
in thread require at compile time? by jbazik

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