Re^3: Passing a run time string to require

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 :|.

UNIVERSAL::require( $scalar )

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Re^4: Passing a run time string to require by rinceWind (Monsignor) on Oct 23, 2004 at 08:32 UTC
Not sure what you are alluding to here. If you pull in UNIVERSAL::require, this has polluted the UNIVERSAL name space, and made the require method available everywhere. If you haven't pulled in Schwern's module, Perl will not find the sub UNIVERSAL::require. If somebody else has a require method, or rather doesn't actually have one at the moment, but is dependent on AUTOLOAD being called, my calling in UNIVERSAL::require in a completely different module will stop this working, as Schwern's require will get called, not AUTOLOAD. -- I'm Not Just Another Perl Hacker	[reply]
Re^5: Passing a run time string to require by BUU (Prior) on Oct 23, 2004 at 09:07 UTC
Oh, I read too quickly and missed the fact that it was a moduled-based method. I just assumed it was core.	[reply]