Re: Difference between 'use' and 'require'

[broquaint]

The differences are many and often subtle:

• use only expects a bareword, require can take a bareword or an expression
• use is evaluated at compile-time, require at run-time
• use implicitly calls the import method of the module being loaded, require does not
• use excepts arguments in addition to the bareword (to be passed to import), require does not
• use does not behave like a function (i.e can't be called with parens, can't be used in an expression, etc), whereas require does

So they behave differently but achieve the same goal. Then there's a list of cultural differences in addition to the technical differences, but they're not so hard and fast.

[ikegami]

use implicitly calls the import method of the module being loaded, require does not

That's optional. Adding empty parens (as in use Socket ();) prevents import from being called.