mostly cause require docs use the eval "require DBI" form as an example, and so i was pretty confident that would work w/o trying it, and the critical piece for OP was to remove the load-time 'use' call .. i also vauguely remember having problems once doing a eval "use Foo" once but really can't remember what (possibly {probably??} totally unrelated .. was a load order issue maybe??) .. so, in summary, no real good reason :) | [reply]
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Maybe you had problems with eval { use Foo; }. That won't work because the block of eval BLOCK is compiled when the eval is *compiled*. eval "use Foo;" is different because the expression in eval EXPR is compiled when the eval is *executed*.
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