Adam Kennedy wrote: > Out of curiosity John, why would need to do an automatic run-time > module load at all?
It is to replicate some longstanding UNIVERSAL::VERSION behavior; there are things that I can do in XS that are nearly impossible to replicate any other way in pure Perl. I have some test improvements that will make it clearer, but the issue is the inability from pure Perl to distinguish between a "module" that doesn't have a 'package' line from one that doesn't exist at all. Perl's own UNIVERSAL::VERSION is perfectly happy to be called on an unloaded class: $ perl5.8.9 -we 'print Completely::Fictitious::Class::Name->VERSION' Use of uninitialized value in print at -e line 1. Note that the warning is merely that the ->VERSION method returns undef. That turned out to be surprisingly difficult to distinguish from the case where the class is missing a 'package' declaration: $ cat Dumb.pm # no package here. # nor $VERSION 1; John
