in reply to "use base" or @ISA

There is a subtle difference between the following: 
use base 'Foo';

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use Foo;
our @ISA = qw( Foo );

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I always use the latter, because 'use base' does a require, not a use. This means that Foo's import() isn't called. Most people would consider this to be a good thing, but I don't like limiting the options for the modules I work with. This is Perl, after all.

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