Greetings all;
I have another stoater here, that I'm sure some wise monk will be able to point out what exactly is going on - but truly has me confused.
First of all, I only recently discovered perl could literally reload modules on the fly. This is why I love perl. Not only is this so immensely cool - but perl makes it so easy. I firmly believe this is a sign of a superior language. But enough ass kissing.

My reload module is amply stolen from Apache::StatINC, as suggested here. This works perfectly for loading modules like it should - EXCEPT when it reloads itself. I suspect changing the package namespace on the function while it is running perhaps cocks up the lexical scope for the local - but I'm not entirely positive.

package foo;
use strict;
use warnings;
sub bar {
    print "Works\n";
    }
1;

package reload;
use strict;
use warnings;

sub reload {
    my ($PM) = @_;
    delete $INC{"$PM.pm"};
    local $^W = 0;
    eval("require $PM;");
    }
1;

#Script
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use reload;

while(<STDIN>)
    print "Hit Enter.\n";
    &reload::reload("foo");
    &foo::bar();
    &reload::reload("reload");
    }

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And, as you'll see soon enough, foo.pm reloads without any complaints, time and time again. However reload.pm leaves us with an undesireable "Subroutine redefined" warning.
All I want is for the warning to go away.
I could, simply, not use warnings at all - but I'd much rather find a way around this, if I can. Turning warnings off doesn't work either, I believe also related to scope.

-- Alexander Widdlemouse undid his bellybutton and his bum dropped off --

Update: Apparently my terminology is guff. Not lexical scope, but dynamic.

In reply to Reloading modules- suppressing warnings works sometimes? by JPaul

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