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On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 11:36:42AM -0700, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
>According to Moore, Paul:
>> Site.pm
>> -------
>> use strict;
>
>That will have no effect on the main program.
>
>> use DBI;
>> use FindBin;
>> use lib $FindBin::Bin;
>> use IO;
>> use Data::Dumper;
>> use Rebol;
>
>These will import their functions into %main::, which may or may
>not be the Right Thing.
>
>> use lib "put site specific libraries here";
>
>This will work, though.
Well, come to think of it, the PERL5OPT variable will not do exactly
what I have in mind either, neither will '-Mstrict', etc.
Suppose you want to export a certain module everywhere, so it is
visible to each scope. (Dumper, strict, whatever). What would really
be necessary is having these 'use' statements attached to each 'package'
statement.
I suppose you could make a module, 'use Defaults' and make it run at
INIT time which takes all of the namespaces, and manually does a bunch
of
foreach $namespace (@namespaces)
{
package $namespace;
eval ("$ENV{PERL5OPT}");
}
but that is incomplete, error prone, and doesn't work for certain
modules/pragmas (use strict comes to mind). And exactly how do you
get a list of namespaces anyways (closest I can think of is via @INC)?
Ed