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Can anybody think of advantages to the "push @INC" move here and the more familiar 
use lib 'foo/bar/bletch';

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RE (tilly) 4: my first module
by tilly (Archbishop) on Oct 07, 2000 at 03:08 UTC
    Well with lib you are saying that directory is the *first* place to look for modules, with push you are saying it is the last. Sometimes you might want that control.

    I once had to deal with a Perl system that didn't know where its libraries were, manipulating @INC in a BEGIN block was what got me out of that. OTOH if you know about PERL5LIB (which I do now and didn't then) then that is easy enough to fix.

    So yes, I can think of uses. But none that I would cause me to recommend manipulating @INC rather than using lib.

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