You're right, it is a hack. It's probably useable in tests and standalone scripts. But this is for a CPAN module. I don't want to rely on someone using my module not having an autoloaded method called require. C'est la vie :|.

Admittedly, a plug-in is pretty close to what I am doing, but in this case, not a plug-in to an existing module (which a CPAN search gives); this is one of my modules. However, the generic modules, such as Module::Pluggable, seem overkill for what I am doing at present.

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In reply to Re^2: Passing a run time string to require by rinceWind
in thread Passing a run time string to require by rinceWind

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