[ic] Require in Global UserTag

Stefan Hornburg Racke interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Tue Sep 18 18:12:19 2001


mheins@redhat.com writes:

> Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke@linuxia.de):
> > Thanks, Mike, this was really a time-saver. 
> > 
> > But I suggest to change the distributed tags accordingly.
> > There is IMHO no advantage for this check within
> > the sub.
> > 
> 
> All of the distributed tags work in the way they were intended.
> The ones that do the require at runtime do it that way because:
> 
>     1. Every time you "use" a module, it adds to core size.
>     2. It works fine if you call it in ITL, just not if
>        called in embedded Perl.
> 
> ALl that needs be done is just to move the require above the
> sub if you want to be able to call it with $Tag->tagname().

Yes, (1) got my attraction. (2) is just bad doc's :-)

Ciao
        Racke

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