in reply to %INC and eval use

use already skips loading the module if it is in %INC (importing does happen, but IIRC, this specific module doesn't export anything), so why test %INC manually?

See require if it must happen at runtime.

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Re: Re: %INC and eval use
by bronto (Priest) on Mar 10, 2004 at 16:30 UTC

    To avoid evaling more than once; AFAIK evals are expensive, aren't they?

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      To avoid evaling more than once; AFAIK evals are expensive, aren't they?

      Yes, but why do you use eval in the first place? require is the runtime module loader.

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