We seem to have gotten rather off the point. We will have some method to serialize chunks of perl code and the associated variables and freeze them off somewhere (disk, sockets, databases, whatever) so hopefully that'll be enough to build on. Can we take a shot at the things that we'd need to provide a very basic autoloading? If not, I'll put it off and deal with it later. That's OK, but it probably means the core functionality will be rather restricted. Which is OK too, I suppose. Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk