Why didn't perl warn me that I was stepping on a built in package of core significance? Or did perl just include the core "Config.pm" module and mine never actually got loaded?

How would perl know that this is unintentional?

If you write a new program and name it perl.exe, would your OS warn you that ./perl.exe is not C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe?

@INC managment is like @PATH managment, the assumption is you know what you're doing 

$ cat Config.pm
package Config; $VERSION=666666; 1;

$ perl -MConfig -le " print $INC{q!Config.pm!}"
C:/perl/5.12.2/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/Config.pm

$ perl -le "print for @INC"
C:/perl/site/5.12.2/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:/perl/site/5.12.2/lib
C:/perl/5.12.2/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:/perl/5.12.2/lib
.

$ perl -I. -MConfig -le " print $INC{q!Config.pm!}"
Config.pm

$ perl -I. -le "print for @INC"
.
C:/perl/site/5.12.2/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:/perl/site/5.12.2/lib
C:/perl/5.12.2/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
C:/perl/5.12.2/lib
.

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In reply to Re^3: Package Variables by Anonymous Monk
in thread Package Variables by kurt2439

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