On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:39:03 -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2005, Paul Kraus wrote: > >> Not to sound daft but why would you want to do that? What would be >> gained or lossed. What would be an advantage of using require? > > Normally, you wouldn't. > > Think of 'require' as a vestigal organ from Perl4 that has little or no > purpose today with Perl5. > > For the most part, it's safe to pretend that 'require' doesn't exist.
Ahem. It is most useful when I want to determine the module to load dynamically, or when I want to load a module only if necessary to save the time spent compiling it in the cases when it is not needed. -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
