On 13-Jul-2001 Fletch wrote:
> If $freezer contains a package name then:
>
>
> eval qq{require $freezer; $freezer->import()};
>
>
> should be sufficient, and will let perl manage any necessary
> path mangling. From perldoc -f require . . .
>
>
> If EXPR is a bareword, the require assumes a ".pm"
> extension and replaces "::" with "/" in the
> filename for you, to make it easy to load standard
> modules. This form of loading of modules does not
> risk altering your namespace.
I'm aware of this. However, POE::Filter::Reference doesn't do it this way
and I wonder why... Amoungst other things, this is less safe. I don't see
any other reason, though.
-Philip
