Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > >>There's no good reason to do an eval 'use'. Use require instead, and >>import if you need to (but most people don't). > > > Actually, there is. This code: > > my $module = 'Foo::Bar'; > require $module; > > is not the same as this: > > require Foo::Bar; > > If require is given a string, it looks for a filename _matching_ that > string. If it's given a bareword, it converts '::' to filesystem path > separators first.
Then do an eval 'require Foo::Bar', but eval 'use Foo::Bar' doesn't make sense. - Perrin
