From base.pm:

    die if $@ && $@ !~ /^Can't locate .*? at \(eval /;

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So you won't ever hear of a file that couldn't be found, instead you get a useless message about the base class being empty:

                    Carp::croak(<<ERROR);
Base class package "$base" is empty.
    (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package f
+irst.)
ERROR

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... and that only if the namespace wasn't ever touched before. The following code will not fail nor warn despite the file Foo/Bar.pm not existing:

use strict;
BEGIN {
    print "Foo::Bar::VERSION : $Foo::Bar::VERSION\n";
};
package Foo::Baz;
use base 'Foo::Bar';
package main;
print "done\n.";

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... because base.pm does not look in %INC to see whether a module was loaded.

In reply to Re^5: Where is the @ISA array? by Corion
in thread Where is the @ISA array? by metaperl

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