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Re: Re: while(<>) { ... } considered harmful

by schwern (Scribe)
on Aug 07, 2003 at 21:40 UTC ( [id://282040]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: while(<>) { ... } considered harmful
in thread while(<>) { ... } considered harmful

require returns the last evaluated expression in the file. Normally this is 1, but I've seen people do wacky things like have "return %hash" as the last expression and do "%hash = require Foo::Bar";

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Re^3: while(<>) { ... } considered harmful (...= require ...)
by tye (Sage) on Aug 18, 2003 at 21:44 UTC
    require returns the last evaluated expression in the file

    Only the first time:

    > perl -de 0 ... DB<1> x require 'con' 'this is true'; ^Z 0 'this is true' DB<2> x require 'con' 0 1 DB<3> x require 'con' 0 1 DB<4>
    I've seen people do wacky things like have "return %hash" as the last expression and do "%hash = require Foo::Bar";

    So such code will break as soon as more than one use of the module is attempted from a single run. That's a bit of a shame too, since Perl could really use something along those lines.

                    - tye
Re: Re: Re: while(<>) { ... } considered harmful
by Juerd (Abbot) on Aug 07, 2003 at 21:48 UTC

    Since my post, I have used eval { require ... } ? ...->import : *symbol = sub { dummy here } a lot.

    Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

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