No. You are mistaking ->import() for BEGIN. The point is getting the override information to the parser before it parses the portion you expected to be overridden. ->import() can do that because it happens at BEGIN-time during use(). You can do that yourself with an inline BEGIN block.

Interesting. However, given the documentation on my system this mistake is not difficult to understand... From perlsub

Overriding may be done only by importing the name from a module--ordin
+ary
predeclaration isn't good enough. However, the use subs pragma lets yo
+u, 
in effect, predeclare subs via the import syntax, and these names may 
+then 
override built-in ones:


    use subs 'chdir', 'chroot', 'chmod', 'chown';
    chdir $somewhere;
    sub chdir { ... }
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But thanks for the clarification.



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