[kw-pm] potentially dumb perl question regarding packages

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, abez wrote:

> Packages are used to create modules, you don't need to make PM files
> to use packages. Some applications, like classes, require packages
> to handle namespace issues. Did they use base or modify the @ISA
> array in that fred package?

nope.  in fact, i deleted the package definition in one of those files
and everything worked just fine.  a recursive grep showed that nothing
else in the entire source used that package name.

rday