My guess is that you want to keep this stuff in Perl scripts because you only occasionally use this functionality. I would convert my scripts both to actual modules and in some cases methods that load via AutoLoader.

Main Script

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use lib qq~./mydir~;
require qq~./code.pm~;
#use Foo;

print Foo::foo();
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Module

package Foo;
use AutoLoader 'AUTOLOAD';   # import the default AUTOLOAD subroutine
 
1;
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Autoloaded Stuff

Note that your .al files have to be in a particular directory. in this case it is here: ./mydir/auto/Foo/foo.al

package Foo;

sub foo {
    return 'tastes so good...';
}

1;
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Try it Out

perl code.pl
tastes so good...
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