On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 01:21:23PM -0700, Tracy Reed spake thusly:
> 6. It contains stuff like:
>
> # foreign_call(module, function, [arg]*)
> # Call a function in another module
> sub foreign_call
> {
Jamie Cameron, author of webmin, says:
> Yeah, those functions are admittedly odd - I created them years ago
> to allow cross-module function calls, before I know about Perl modules
> and such.
>
> Basically, foreign_require sets up the context for another Webmin module
> to be called from the current one. The idea is to use it like so :
>
> foreign_require("useradmin", "user-lib.pl");
> @users = useradmin::list_users();
> etc..
So all of that complication is there because when he wrote webmin he
didn't know about perl modules and they have never migrated over to
using them.
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