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in reply to Re: what would you like to see in perl5.12? (require $class)
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This is a good idea. It's backwards incompatible (in the case where someone really wanted to search @INC for a file named 'HTTP::Request'), but it seems to me within the level of incompatibility that's acceptable for a full version number change. (Though YMMV.)