Is there a particular reason to use: use CGI? qw(:standard); and then create the CGI object? By creating the CGI object you already have access to all the methods normally exported by :standard. Is there something I'm missing here?

The only explanation I can guess at would be a mod_perl situation where you wanted to preload as much of the CGI module as possible before the webserver forked.

Thank you for any insight you can provide.