I recently reported a problem with require() being broken: it caches failed require()'s as having been successful. See the thread starting here: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-09/msg00929.html Rick Delaney kindly posted a patch to fix this: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-09/msg01365.html but it doesn't seem to have been applied anywhere yet. Is it going to be? - SteveThread Next