NAME
autorequire - Generate module code on demand
SYNOPSIS
use autorequire sub {
my ($filename) = @_ ;
if ($filename eq 'Useless.pm'){
return "package Useless ;\n1 ;"
}
return undef ;
} ;
DESCRIPTION
autorequire
allows you to automatically generate code for modules that are missing from your installation. It does so by placing a hook at the end of the @INC array and forwarding requests to missing modules to the subroutine provided. autorequire
guarantees that the hook registered will always be the last entry in @INC.
The subroutine must return the code for the module in the form of a filehandle, a scalar reference or a scalar. A return value of undef will pass control to the subroutine provided to the previous autorequire
usage or will croak if autorequire
was not previously used.
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Patrick LeBoutillier, <patl@lcpan.org<gt>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (C) 2005 by Patrick LeBoutillier
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.5 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.