? Win32::Console::ANSI is only required once.

Sorry, my mistake. I was just focusing on "ANSI" and mistook the require of require Term::ANSIColor. I should have read more carefully.

You could argue that any script that does not require Win32::console::ANSI when printing to the console on Win32 is broken.

If think this is an important point. If you are right, then I would consider it a severe mistake by ActiveState not having included it in their Perl distribution. I'm curious here about the comments of other Monks...