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commit 16279618f4fddf32c6336e8b43059c0392284359
Author: Ken Cotterill <kencotter...@netspace.net.au>
Date: Thu Jun 1 13:09:39 2017 -0600
PATCH: [perl #131142] Revise 'if' documentation
This adds text about how to import when you want to 'use MODULE ()'
M dist/if/if.pm
commit 89a7486bcd3ea0cb637fe1d82b1e5fa9ad55a10c
Author: Karl Williamson <k...@cpan.org>
Date: Thu Jun 1 13:11:57 2017 -0600
Add Ken Cotterill to AUTHORS
M AUTHORS
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Summary of changes:
AUTHORS | 1 +
dist/if/if.pm | 11 ++++++++++-
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index aa0a22a2fe..40c6393e00 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -692,6 +692,7 @@ KAWAI Takanori <gcd00...@nifty.ne.jp>
Keedi Kim <ke...@cpan.org>
Keith Neufeld <neuf...@fast.pvi.org>
Keith Thompson <keith.s.thomp...@gmail.com>
+Ken Cotterill <kencotter...@netspace.net.au>
Ken Estes <es...@ms.com>
Ken Fox <k...@ford.com>
Ken Hirsch <kenhir...@ftml.net>
diff --git a/dist/if/if.pm b/dist/if/if.pm
index 1985df4db1..d1cbd00f35 100644
--- a/dist/if/if.pm
+++ b/dist/if/if.pm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
package if;
-$VERSION = '0.0606';
+$VERSION = '0.0607';
sub work {
my $method = shift() ? 'import' : 'unimport';
@@ -50,6 +50,15 @@ The use of C<< => >> above provides necessary quoting of
C<MODULE>.
If you don't use the fat comma (eg you don't have any ARGUMENTS),
then you'll need to quote the MODULE.
+If you wanted ARGUMENTS to be an empty list, i.e. have the effect of:
+
+ use MODULE ();
+
+you can't do this with the C<if> pragma; however, you can achieve
+exactly this effect, at compile time, with:
+
+ BEGIN { require MODULE if CONDITION }
+
=head2 EXAMPLES
The following line is taken from the testsuite for L<File::Map>:
--
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