On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:14:20AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> One of the features of perl 6 is going to be the ability to automatically
> use a module if one or more preregistered functions are used in your
> source.
>
> Would someone care to take a shot at formalizing the system? We need a way
> to register these functions, track the module version (if any) they're in,
> and stuff like that. (Including, I'm sure, things I've forgotten)
Have a look at AnyLoader in CPAN.
NAME
AnyLoader - Automagically loads modules for fully
qualified functions
SYNOPSIS
use AnyLoader;
Carp::croak("This is going to hurt the Perl community more than it ".
"is going to hurt you!");
Its not quite what you're talking about (yet) but we can extend it to
flesh out the idea of automagical autoloading.
--
Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
Communism is the antichrist, which promised to bring peace and equality to
mankind, only to be disproved by the work of time.
--Alex Chiu, Immortality Guy
