That's a relativly new feature, isn't it? I don't recall ever seeing the "indirect object" for use before.

The perldoc you mentioned seems to be reciently updated, since it's not entirely consistant. It still says it's exactly the same as BEGIN { require Module; import Module LIST; } but doesn't mention VERSION. It should say BEGIN { require Module; Module::VERSION (VERSION); import Module LIST; } which is confusing because VERSION is used both as a actual token and as a placeholder, so whoever edits that should make other changes too.

Who maintains the perldocs? I'd like to submit a correction or at least inform the proper person.

—John

In reply to Re: (tye)Re: Overriding Exporter::import by John M. Dlugosz
in thread Overriding Exporter::import by John M. Dlugosz

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