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Re: %INC...
From:
Paul Schinder
Date:
April 29, 2000 17:12
Subject:
Re: %INC...
Message ID:
p04310100b5312a19a70a@[10.0.1.33]
At 3:09 PM -0400 4/29/00, Jeff Pinyan wrote:
>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'};
>
>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;
In MacPerl, it would actually be $INC{Some/Module.pm}, which would
contain the full MacOS path to the module.
> /os2/i and $OSSEP = '\\', last;
> }
> ($module = 'Some::Module.pm') =~ s/::/$OSSEP/g;
> $loc = $INC{$module};
>
>But perhaps I'm being silly.
>
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