Re^4: require mystery

[Pstack]

Yes, I see, and like your custom function. The code had been working previously with an expression eval before I altered it to the FIRST block eval.

Did you notice how I was thrown off by the success nearby of the SECOND block eval which survived all versions:

eval {$pathtool->import("mkpath")}; #OK

which would not then seem right either if similarly translated as ..(though it may be right?)..:

"File::Path"->import("mkpath");#??

Mmm!

cheers

Pstack

[Corion]

Perl allows barewords or strings (which are basically the same, except that a bareword comes without quotes, hence, "bare") as invocants:

File::Path->import(...)

is the same as:

"File::Path"->import(...)

and

my $pathtool = "File::Path";
$pathtool->import(...)

and all three translate to:

File::Path::import("File::Path",...);