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Postings from February 2000
On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Larry Wall wrote: > japhy@pobox.com writes: > : On Feb 10, Nathan Torkington said: > : > : >Mark Mielke writes: > : >> Haha... has anybody named a package like "Santa's::Helpers" before? > : >> (That possibility having never crossed my mind) > : > > : >Mixing :: and ', no. But Chris Nandor wrote the D'oh module, I > : >believe. > : > : I (kind of) like that fact that :: is translated to a /. That way, I can > : annoy people by doing stuff like > : > : use ::home::jeffp::my_modules::MyModule; > : > : And they get puzzled. > > That's sick. I love it. Me too. Coincidently, I was just looking into this a few days ago, and saw that with perl5.004_04 at least, @INC appears to be searched: $ perl -e 'use ::a::b::c' Can't locate /a/b/c.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /prod/free/lib/perl5/aix/5.00404 /prod/free/lib/perl5 /prod/free/lib/perl5/site_perl/aix /prod/free/lib/perl5/sit e_perl .) at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. But with perl5.5.650 (and probably at some earlier point), @INC appears to be bypassed (hopefully because of the leading ::): $ perl -e 'use ::a::b::c' Can't locate /a/b/c.pm at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. This latter bahavior being just the one I wanted! John.