APM: using a scalar var as a module

[Mike South]

hi jeremy,

here's some relevant stuff that you can get from "perldoc -f require":

    n other words, if you try this:

            require Foo::Bar;    # a splendid bareword

    The require function will actually look for the "F<Foo/Bar.pm>"
    file in the directories specified in the C<@INC> array.

    But if you try this:

            $class = 'Foo::Bar'; require $class;      # $class is not 
                                                      # a bareword
        #or
            require "Foo::Bar";  # not a bareword because of the ""

    The require function will look for the "F<Foo::Bar>" file in the
    @INC array and will complain about not finding "F<Foo::Bar>" there.
    In this case you can do:

            eval "require $class";

What I do is that eval, then I check $@ and die with that if it's
nonempty.  Or something like that.  If that doesn't work reply and
I'll look it up.

mike