Exposing my ignorance, wanting help with use!

Matt Lawrence matt.lawrence at virgin.net
Mon Feb 19 12:08:42 GMT 2007


Uri Guttman wrote:
> well, as ilmari said he should have said it was a cpan and not core
> module. :)
>   
Yes, that email hadn't arrived by the time I sent this one. :(
> the eval string method is good enough for this IMO.
>   
True. That's essentially what UNIVERSAL::require does anyway, although 
there are safety checks there now to stop people requiring "qx(rm -rf 
*)", so if you're not entirely sure where the module name may be coming 
from, it's probably a good thing.

Matt



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