Re: Really auto autoloaded modules

[Tim Bunce]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 11:35:59AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 02:17 PM 2/5/2001 -0200, Branden wrote:
> > > I think that, if you want this behavior, a module that implements it
> > > would be just fine.  (Why muck with "use"?)  To use a module name
> > > that seems like it could fit this purpose:
> > >
> > > use autoload { Bar => 'http://www.cpan.org/modules/Bar' },
> > >              { Baz => 'ftp://my.local.domain/perl-modules/Baz', VERSION =>
> >2 };
> >
> >Very good idea indeed!!! Append the wishlist to add this module to perl6's
> >standard library!!!
> 
> Very *bad* idea. It sounds nice, but using a remote module without any sort 
> of control is just begging for trouble.

True. But perl6 shouldn't stand in the way of making silly things possible.

Tim.