use statements in packages

From: Robert <sigzero@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 05:07:30 -0800 (PST)

So I was reading up on Dist::Zilla and I see a code snippet like:

use strict;
use warnings;
package Your::Library;

1;

I was always under the impression the "package" statement was the
first thing. Is there some advantage to having the use statements
above the package declaration?

Bob
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