thanks. I just realized that my error comes from another source. How do I force the "import" to be the first executed statement? ... answer below 
package cacher;
use strict;
use warnings;
use warnings FATAL => qw{ uninitialized }; # larry, this should have b
+een part of warnings.

use base 'Exporter';
our @EXPORT = ("pdfpagenum");

BEGIN {
  my $saved_pkg_args="undefined";

  sub import {
    print "import args: ".join("|", @_)."\n";
    $saved_pkg_args= $_[1];
    print "in import, saved args '$saved_pkg_args'\n"; 
  }

  sub test { print STDERR "in test, you have saved '$saved_pkg_args'\n
+"; }

  print "this should executed after the import: $saved_pkg_args.\n"
}

1;

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I guess I should just call everything I want to be main code from the import statement itself. still strange that import() is not the first thing called.

In reply to Re^2: Skeleton For Import to Package? by iaw4
in thread Skeleton For Import to Package? by iaw4

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