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On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 5:10 PM Tom Molesworth via perl5-porters <
perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2022 at 04:52, Graham Knop <haarg@haarg.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 1:19 AM Yuki Kimoto <kimoto.yuki@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Summary.
>> >
>> > Are we going in the following direction?
>> >
>> > If the "yield_true" feature is enabled,
>> >
>> > - the effect is local-scope. Generally the "yield_true" feature is
>> used at the top level file scope.
>> > - It has no effect on the return value of .pm file. Both an implicit
>> return value and an explicit return value specified by return statement.
>> > - "require" ignores the return value to determine if the module was
>> successfully loaded.
>> > - "require" returns the return value of .pm file just like the
>> current behavior.
>> >
>>
>> I think having require return the last value from the file would be a
>> terrible change.
>>
>
> It already returns the last value _if it was true_, so I think this
> description is a bit misleading - the concern here could be reworded as
> "require should never return false", since that'd be what breaks the eval {
> require } combination?
>
Not completely true anyway; it only returns the last value if the module
has not previously been successfully loaded. So anything relying on it
being anything other than a generic true value should be encouraged to fix
their code.
-Dan
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