Hello, I've been asking myself if it's not too wild to make the package keyword return true if it's used with a BLOCK if everything inside it is OK. Since I don't know enough about perl internals, I thought to seek out to the people who know best, so please try to see this as a . If package BLOCK returned true, packages that only declare a class would be relieved of having to put the 1; at the end of the package, which I think is one of Perls' warts. A file like: ---- FILE Class.pm ----- package MyClass { } ------------------------ would simply work when used. From a backcompat point of view, if there is more code after the package, that would be evaluated normally, so all old code should work. ---- FILE Class.pm ----- package MyClass { } 0; ------------------------ shouldn't let you use it. I think this is only appliable to "package BLOCK" and "package VERSION BLOCK", but if you write Modern Perl, it would be helpful. I'm sorry I don't know enough about perls' internals to make a patch, but I'd be happy to write tests if p5p thinks it's a sane feature to have. Best Regards, Jose Luis Martinez JLMARTIN on CPAN jlmartinez@capside.com