[pm-h] madness, genius or confusion?

[S Z]

I've seen something exactly like that. It helped when dev, staging, and
test all had the lib in different locations...

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:04 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:44:13 -0500
> Bryan Rivera <brivera001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ever seen something like the code snippet below? I came
> > across this and figured I was just missing something. Why would you
> > want to 'use lib' inside an eval inside a BEGIN block? I think it's
> > all kinds of wrong.
> >
> > BEGIN {
> >     eval "{ use lib '/usr/prod/xxx/xxx/perl/lib/'; }";
> > }
>
> The only reason I can think of is pretty unrealistic.
>
> This construct would protect against the lib.pm module failing and
> still execute at compile time.
>
> I would think that if you expected 'lib' to fail to load, there would
> not be much else you could do. So, I can't see a legitimate reason to
> do it.
>
> But, someone obviously thought there was a reason...
>
> G. Wade
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