in reply to Re^2: Order of 'use' statement in Data::Dumper
in thread Order of 'use' statement in Data::Dumper

That's true (and something I didn't know psini++), but I think the op was expecting 
use Module;

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to be equivalent with 
BEGIN{require Module;}

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, which it is not.

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Re^4: Order of 'use' statement in Data::Dumper
by psini (Deacon) on Jul 16, 2009 at 16:52 UTC

    Sorry but, in this example at least, it is equivalent.

    Both use and BEGIN are executed at compile time, but only when the compiler reach their position. So:

    use strict;
use warnings;

my %test_hash = ( a => { b=> 'c' } );
print Dumper %test_hash;

BEGIN{require Data::Dumper; Data::Dumper->import}

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    gives the same error as above where 

    use strict;
use warnings;

my %test_hash = ( a => { b=> 'c' } );
print Dumper(%test_hash);

BEGIN{require Data::Dumper; Data::Dumper->import}

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    works, for exactly the same reason.

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