On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:38:33AM -0500, Graham Barr wrote: >On Wed, Oct 20, 1999 at 11:11:56PM -0500, Ed Peschko wrote: >> use strict; >> use DBI; >> use FindBin; >> use lib $FindBin::Bin; >> use IO; >> use Data::Dumper; >> use Rebol; >> use lib "put site specific libraries here"; >> >> And sometimes, I wish that there was a method for *compiling* these commonly >> used modules into the interpreter itself, as part of Configure. > >Well you can get close. Create a .pm file (say MuStuff.pm) with no package statement >and place it in @INC. Then you use lines will simply be > >use MyStuff; No, that doesn't quite work - exporting issues make it more complicated than its worth. And say you want to enforce 'use strict' on all programs in a certain development environment. Compiling the path into the executable makes the easiest way. Ed