The gentoo has upgraded perl to perl-5.12 and immidiately one of my modules stopped to work. The error was somewhat weird, so after playing with deleting pieces of code I reduced everything to the following 2 files

try.pl 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use MyPackage;

MyPackage::close_cnx();

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MyPackage.pm 

package MyPackage;
use strict;

use constant INIT => 4;


sub close_cnx
{
    my $self = shift;
    init_action($self);
}

sub init_action
{
    my $self = shift;
    return if $self->{Needed} <= $self->{count};
    callit($self->{ID}, INIT);
}

1;

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An attempt to execute "try.pl" results in the message 

Undefined subroutine &main::Needed called.
INIT failed--call queue aborted.

Enabling warnings clarifies, that the problem may be from the conflicting use with the INIT block. But if such use is so disastrous, why is it not a syntax error? Are there some reasons to have it only as warning?

In reply to Conflict with INIT block is not an error? by andal

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