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On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 1:27 PM Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 12, 2021, at 12:36, Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote: > >  > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 12:23 PM Felipe Gasper <felipe@felipegasper.com> > wrote: > >> >> If I may, another suggestion/request: have the built-in return the >> namespace itself. This way itâs easy to do stuff like: >> >> my $class = 'My::Class'; >> my $thing = need($class)->new(); >> > > This is easily sensible for the version which only returns or dies like > require, which does not have a need for a significant return value > (use_module from Module::Runtime does this). A version which uses the > return value to indicate whether it was successful could also use the > package name as the "success" return value, only because '' and '0' are not > valid package names. > > > There are enough reasons for âI canât do that, Daveâ when loading a module > that ISTM a return-in-failure would have granularity problems. > > I think the most natural interface is computer-friendly exceptions of some > kind: objects, code-prefixed strings, etc. > Yes, exception objects would be a solution. But I am talking about the interface described in the rest of the thread. Exceptions would be thrown for issues other than missing module or insufficient version; only in those cases would false be returned. -DanThread Previous | Thread Next