Unusing modules

[Stas Bekman]

Brendon Oliver wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:14 pm, Rick Measham wrote:
> 
>>I have a CPAN module loaded (PDF::API2) that appears not to work too
>>well creating multiple PDFs. It appears that if I could unload the
>>module somehow, I'd be fine. I could trace through it all, but if
>>anyone's ever looked at the innards of PDF they'd see that I'm
>>screwed :)
>>
>>Is it possible to get perl to destroy the currently used module and
>>then use it again?
>>
>>Yes, I'm hoping for some sort of hack and I know its not really the
>>right way to do it, but I need something quick at the moment :)
> 
> 
> Not sure if this will work, but using the Symbol::Table module you can 
> redefine symbol table contents.  Perhaps you could redefine (to undef?) or 
> delete the symbol table entries for the module in question, then reload it 
> via "require"?

Look at Apache::PerlRun in the modperl distro, that's exactly what it does.

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