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So sometimes base classes want to export things, constants and utility functions among the more obvious things. Sometimes they also want to play around willy-nilly in the callers namespace. This is not possible when using base.pm, but only with the following. use Foo; push @ISA, 'Foo'; Why do all that when C<use base 'Foo';> should be simple enough? So the following patch calls $base->import() only if it exists. And it's called empty, which would cause the default behaviour to occur. I don't think it's useful to go as far as support multiple interfaces and allow parameters to be passed in. If someone wants to use CGI.pm as a base class, for example, they shouldn't want the functions exported. This patch also cleans up the source. There were some lines with tabs, some with spaces, some with both. It looked like the file wanted to be four spaces indented, so that's what I made it. Perl passes all tests on my Mac OS X platform, and my personal tests pass as well. Documentation and version number have been updated. Patch attached. Casey West -- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -- Pablo PicassoThread Next