Esteemed monks,
I m quite new to perl. I faced a very weird problem today.
I have two modules with circular dependencies, Men.pm and Women.pm. Both use Class::Method maker as follows: 
use Class::MethodMaker
  'new_with_init' => "new" ,
  'new_hash_init' => "_hash_init" ,
  'get_set'       => [ qw(method1 ) ];

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Hence compilation of both A and B fails.

$perl -wc Men.pm

The component 'new' has already been installed in class -->Men<-- as a HASH(0xa102440) (this time a new) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i86pc-solaris/Class/MethodMaker.pm line 20
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Men.pm line 145.

But when I import this module in any script, script does not fail to get compiled.

Can you please tell me why the scripts which import these modules Men.pm and Women.pm get compiled without errors?

Thanks a lot!

In reply to Weird compilation success by perl_is_fun

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