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hv@crypt.org wrote:
> :To be able to have two different 'import' methods as both packages are
> :'use' based.
>
> But the assertions::activate is not normally directly used by anyone,
It can also be used on its own. I suppose most people prefers to use
$ script_name arg1 arg2 ...
to run its scripts than
$ perl script_name arg1 arg2 ...
and sometimes perl scripts are embedded in other scripts and so you can
not use the '-A' switch easily, or even the perl interpreter could be
embedded in another app and then you would not be able to use '-A' at all.
In those cases you can add
use assertions::activate $ENV{MYAPPASSERT};
at the beginning of the script and then use MYAPPASSERT env var to
activate assertions from the outside
On the other hand PERL5OPT can also be used to set -A but it's global to
all the perl scripts
Bye,
- Salva