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Perl seems to do some magic with import method call. Even if you don't define it always work: 

$ perl -e 'XXX->xxx'
Can't locate object method "xxx" via package "XXX" (perhaps you forgot
+ to load "XXX"?)
at -e line 1.
$ perl -e 'XXX->import'
# no error

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Re: Re: Re: Loading class
by broquaint (Abbot) on Mar 07, 2003 at 13:56 UTC
    Perl seems to do some magic with import method call
    Indeedey, perl does some groovy AUTOLOAD magic at the source level. See. import() magic for more info on the matter.
    HTH

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