Hi,
what do use and require evaluate to?
S06 suggests it's probably some kind of Module object:
The result of a use statement is a (compile-time) object that also has
an .assuming method, allowing the user to bind parameters in all the
module's subroutines/methods/etc. simultaneously:
(use IO::Logging).assuming(logfile => ".log")
We could make (use Foo) evaluate to the class object Foo,
allowing:
my $foo = (use Foo).new(...);
Alternatively, we could go the Perl 5 way and return the
last thing evaluated in Foo.pm (which might be a Module
object, assuming that module Foo {...} evaluates to Foo).
What do successive uses of use and require evaluate to?
Perl 5 is inconsistent:
$ cat > Foo.pm
package Foo; 42;
$ perl -we 'warn require Foo; warn require Foo'
42 at -e line 1.
1 at -e line 1.
I'd like Perl 6's use and require to return the same thing.
In Perl 5, %INC maps the partial path names of the modules
loaded to their absolute ones. What should the keys and values
of %*INC be in Perl 6?
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