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