On Aug 12, Randy Macdonald said:
However, when I run:
print '<a>';
use NotARealPackage;
print '<b>';
I expect to get:
<a>
but I get no output at all. Why is this?
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.
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