note jdporter <blockquote><i> Did i get it right that </i></blockquote> <p> No. Read [doc://lib]. <c>use lib 'cow';</c> is the standard, clean alternative to <c>unshift @INC, 'cow';</c> It adds a directory to the search locations; it does <i>not</i> identify or pull in any files into the current program. </p> <blockquote><i> if i keep all my project files in the same directory, ... "use lib" will work "as expected". </i></blockquote> <p> No; if you do that, then you never need <c>use lib ...</c> at all, for the simple reason that <c>'.'</c> is in @INC by default. </p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-170442"> I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies[523120|.] </div></div> 393426 942654