My module doesn't care which YAML is around, just that it can Dump and Load.

I'd like to make it YAML module agnostic, as there are several out there.

There's YAML::Any, but that ships with YAML, and what if that's not installed? This works; but it ain't pretty: 

use List::Util qw[ first ];
my $class = first { eval "use $_; 1" } qw[ YAML::XS YAML::Syck YAML::T
+iny YAML];

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Is there a more refined approach?

Thanks!

Update 1: fixed code to stop after the first successful load.
Update 2: code is even better now

Update 3: The code should be polite and use an already loaded module, if possible. 

use List::Util qw[ first ];
use Class::Load qw[ load_first_existing_class is_class_loaded ];
my @CLASSES = qw[ YAML::Tiny YAML::XS YAML::Syck YAML ];

my $class = ( first { is_class_loaded $_ } @CLASSES ) 
    || ( load_first_existing_class  @CLASSES );

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In reply to What's the best way to use Any YAML (not YAML::Any) by djerius

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