Compiling a package into a namespace

[David Cantrell]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:52:56PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:

> This is very possibly one of those "You're asking the wrong question" 
> questions but what the hell.

It's more a case of "you're not telling us enough" :-)

> I have a mod_perl app and I want to load a package called 'foo' defined 
> in ~/simon/a/foo.pm. However I also want to load a package called 'foo' 
> defined in ~/simon/b/foo.pm 
> 
> This will cause problems. 

Assuming that ~simon is in @INC, then ...

  use a::foo;
  use b::foo;

will load them both.  Which (ignoring the effect on %INC and any
importing) is equivalent to loading a single file that reads ...

  package foo;
  # stuff from .../a/foo.pm

  package foo;
  # stuff from .../b/foo.pm

which is Just Fine.  Or are you worried about, eg, both of them defining
a subroutine with the same name?

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