use takes effect as soon as it is compiled - even before BEGIN, or more precisely, before any BEGIN blocks that are read after it, because use is effectively inside its own BEGIN block.
And as the documentation points out (I now notice) this is why you can't skip a use by putting it in the false branch of an if. There is a use if pragma for this purpose instead. Or you could use require.
I shall be thinking of use as a compiler directive from now on.
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Quick
- ($a, $b....) = unpack("A2A7...", $packed)
- push( array, list )
