No apologies needed, you caught me in a brain-slip moment.

As it happens, the second line was use strict, and when I interchanged them:

orange:/usr/lib/cgi-bin/perl# perl -w event_dates.pl 
Uncaught exception from user code:
        Uncaught exception from user code:
        Uncaught exception from user code:
        Can't locate object method "Package" via package "Common_event
+" at Common_event.pm line 2.
        require Common_event.pm called at event_dates.pl line 16
        main::BEGIN() called at Common_event.pm line 0
        eval {...} called at Common_event.pm line 0
        main::BEGIN() called at Common_event.pm line 16
        eval {...} called at Common_event.pm line 16
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at event_dates.pl line 16.
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I don't think that there was anything I could have reasonably done to get more protection from a problem like that.

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Jeremy
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