[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan) wrote in
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> The 'use' statement is special to Perl.  It is executed at
> compile-time, not at run-time like most of the rest of your code. 
> Because of this, your print() statements are never even executed.  In
> fact, only the first one ends up being compiled -- Perl never REACHES
> the second one at all, since it has tried to include the
> NotARealPackage module. 
> 

Good to know. Also, I'll check to see where this special-case behaviour is 
documented.

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