Class::Autouse allows you to specify a class the will only load when a method of that class is called. For large classes that might not be used during the running of a program, such as Date::Manip, this can save you large amounts of memory, and decrease the script load time. WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Class-Autouse -- Sergey Skvortsov skv@FreeBSD.org