[PATCH] perl 5.8.0, FindBin::again

The workaround suggested in the "KNOWN ISSUES" section of FindBin
feels rather hackish. Here's a small code change introducing a new
FindBin::again function to make things somewhat better.

Regards,
	Slaven

#### Patch data follows ####
diff -up 'perl-5.8.0/lib/FindBin.pm' 'new.perl-5.8.0/lib/FindBin.pm'
Index: ./lib/FindBin.pm
--- ./lib/FindBin.pm	Sat Jun  1 19:03:18 2002
+++ ./lib/FindBin.pm	Tue Apr 29 17:13:33 2003
@@ -47,8 +47,14 @@ C<BEGIN> block, it'll be executed only o
 will get it right. This is a problem under mod_perl and other persistent
 Perl environments, where you shouldn't use this module. Which also means
 that you should avoid using C<FindBin> in modules that you plan to put
-on CPAN. The only way to make sure that C<FindBin> will work is to force
-the C<BEGIN> block to be executed again:
+on CPAN. To make sure that C<FindBin> will work is to call the C<again>
+function:
+
+  use FindBin;
+  FindBin::again(); # or FindBin->again;
+
+In former versions of FindBin there was no C<again> function. The
+workaround was to force the C<BEGIN> block to be executed again:
 
   delete $INC{'FindBin.pm'};
   require FindBin;
@@ -96,9 +102,9 @@ use File::Spec;
 %EXPORT_TAGS = (ALL => [qw($Bin $Script $RealBin $RealScript $Dir $RealDir)]);
 @ISA = qw(Exporter);
 
-$VERSION = "1.43";
+$VERSION = "1.44";
 
-BEGIN
+sub init
 {
  *Dir = \$Bin;
  *RealDir = \$RealBin;
@@ -179,5 +185,9 @@ BEGIN
   }
 }
 
+BEGIN { init }
+
+*again = \&init;
+
 1; # Keep require happy
 
diff -up 'perl-5.8.0/lib/FindBin.t' 'new.perl-5.8.0/lib/FindBin.t'
Index: ./lib/FindBin.t
--- ./lib/FindBin.t	Sat Jun  1 19:03:18 2002
+++ ./lib/FindBin.t	Tue Apr 29 17:18:22 2003
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ BEGIN {
     @INC = -d 't' ? 'lib' : '../lib';
 }
 
-print "1..1\n";
+print "1..2\n";
 
 use FindBin qw($Bin);
 
@@ -17,3 +17,9 @@ if ($^O eq 'MacOS') {
     print "not " unless $Bin =~ m,[/.]lib\]?$,;
 }
 print "ok 1\n";
+
+$0 = "-";
+FindBin::again();
+
+print "not " if $FindBin::Script ne "-";
+print "ok 2\n";
#### End of Patch data ####

-- 
Slaven Rezic - slaven@rezic.de

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• [PATCH] perl 5.8.0, FindBin::again by Slaven Rezic
• Re: [PATCH] perl 5.8.0, FindBin::again by Rafael Garcia-Suarez