On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Why do the tests do this:
>
> require Config; import Config;
> if ($Config{'extensions'} !~ /\bData\/Dumper\b/) {
> print "1..0 # Skip: Data::Dumper was not built\n";
> exit 0;
> }
>
> When it would seem to be a whole lot less obfuscated to do this:
>
> if( eval { require Data::Dumper } ) {
> print "1..0 # Skip: Data::Dumper not available\n";
> exit;
> }
Offhand, I don't recall any particular reason. The first version is
probably just the first thing that occurred to me. (Back when there were
only a few extensions, the first version was not quite as messy-looking as
it is now.)
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Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
