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Re: %INC...
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From:
Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
April 29, 2000 13:06
Subject:
Re: %INC...
Message ID:
E12ldVa-0005UQ-00@mserv1b.u-net.net
Jeff Pinyan <japhy@pobox.com> writes:
>Would it be sensible to patch %INC such that keys could also be package
>names? This way, I can do:
>
> use Some::Module;
> $loc = $INC{'Some::Module'};
Why do you need to know location - i.e. what are you going to do
with result?
>
>instead of doing:
>
> use Some::Module;
> $OSSEP = '/';
> for ($^O || do { require Config; $Config::Config{osname} }) {
> /Win/i and $OSSEP = '\\', last;
> /^MacOS$/i and $OSSEP = ':', last;
> /os2/i and $OSSEP = '\\', last;
> }
> ($module = 'Some::Module.pm') =~ s/::/$OSSEP/g;
> $loc = $INC{$module};
>
>But perhaps I'm being silly.
I am not sure, but I thought %INC used '/' in its key names regardless of OS.
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Nick Ing-Simmons
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