I'm not really concerned about the negligible load time. The problem is that production servers won't have the 'ifdef' pragma.

You're right about commenting out 'use ifdef' being easier than commenting out all DEBUGGING lines.

Anyways, none of that matters now since you've provided me with a workable solution in lib::clean ;). Hmmm...maybe I could override my dev version of 'lib' instead of putting 'use lib::clean' in the code...

Thanks again!