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Re: PERL_HEADER env varb: was: Addition to @INC

From:
Chip Salzenberg
Date:
October 21, 1999 18:30
Subject:
Re: PERL_HEADER env varb: was: Addition to @INC
Message ID:
19991021182612.B469@perlsupport.com
According to Ed Peschko:
> >> 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.
> >
> >Then you're SURE to break things, because all of those modules would
> >end up imported into every single module, certainly including some
> >that just don't want things imported into them, thank you very much.
> 
> Ok, then I guess the best way around this (assuming that you want to enforce 
> control on something like 'use strict') is to have the option to put PERL5OPT 
> in the executable, and then have a 'Common' module which contains horrifically 
> obscure code to insert the 'use' statements into each and every right 
> namespace.

"Right" namespace?  How do you know which ones are "right", even in theory?

> (Although, to tell you the truth my experience a pragma to insert
> all of this stuff into every namespace wouldn't break much)

I think you need to experiment a bit more.  There's a reason for @EXPORT_OK.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg             - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
           "I am the Lemon Zester of Destruction!"  //MST3K



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