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Casey West wrote: > It was Friday, May 09, 2003 when Douglas Hunter took the soap box, saying: > : Casey West wrote: > : > : >Now it does, see patch below. > : > > : > : I believe L<B::ByteCode|B::ByteCode> should be > : L<B::Bytecode|B::Bytecode>. BTW, good work with these patches. > > Excellent point (dang mac os), thank thanks. :-) Thanks thanks thanks, apppplied, as #19466, at least this is going to be documented. > --- perl-current.orig/pod/perlfunc.pod Fri May 9 00:58:19 2003 > +++ perl-current/pod/perlfunc.pod Fri May 9 16:58:23 2003 > @@ -4056,6 +4056,15 @@ > > eval "require $class"; > > +Now that you understand how C<require> looks for files in the case of > +a bareword argument, there is a little extra functionality going on > +behind the scenes. Before C<require> looks for a "F<.pm>" extension, > +it will first look for a filename with a "F<.pmc>" extension. A file > +with this extension is assumed to be Perl bytecode generated by > +L<B::Bytecode|B::Bytecode>. If this file is found, and it's modification > +time is newer than a coinciding "F<.pm>" non-compiled file, it will be > +loaded in place of that non-compiled file ending in a "F<.pm>" extension.Thread Previous