Re: PerlFreshRestart and %INC

[Tim Bunce]

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 12:00:38PM -0500, Young, Geoffrey S. wrote:
> that's what I meant :)
> 
> Since %INC is a hash, and it's order unpredictable, it's possible that DBI
> be re-required before Apache::DBI.  But maybe something else is going on
> too...
> 
> here's the code from the guide:
> 
> while (my($k,$v) = each %INC) {
>       delete $INC{$k};
>       require $k;
> }

Well that would certainly cause the problem.

But is that _really_ what PerlFreshRestart does? I thought it destroyed
the entire perl interpreter before then recreating one from scratch?

I presumed (I've not looked) that it would reload the new interpreter
in the same way that the original one was and thus would reload modules
in the same order.

Tim.