Re: Why do users need FileHandles?

[Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon]

David Storrs wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl6
#use warnings;  # Note that I am NOT explicitly using these
#use strict;
{   no 'warnings'; no 'strict';   # These must be explicitly turned off...
    no installation_security;     # or this would throw warning & error
    use SomeModule;     #
    use OtherModule;    # 
    use Foo;            # If these are not installed,
    use Bar;            # they will be auto-installed.
    use Baz;            #
    use Jaz;            #
}

use FrobNitz;           # If this is not installed, the script fails.
<script goes here>
__END__
This is really something you want to enable or disable per-run, IMHO (so 
e.g. the first time you run the script, you run it with "perl -Minstall" 
or something).  Or you could just make it part of the 'cpan' program:

    brent:~$ wget www.somesite.com/somescript.cgi.gz
    brent:~$ gunzip somescript.cgi.gz
    brent:~$ cpan --prereqs=somescript.cgi
    brent:~$ cp somescript.cgi /www/cgi-bin
    brent:~$ chmod 755 /www/cgi-bin/somescript.cgi
    # somescript.cgi is now ready for use
This would require 'cpan' to parse the script with a modified grammar 
that noted all the 'use's (and 'require's, I guess), then install each 
module.  Or something like that.

Hmm...maybe this could be done for Perl 5...
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Brent "Dax" Royal-Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Perl and Parrot hacker
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