[tpm] eval oddness

[Liam R E Quin]

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 22:27 -0500, Dave Doyle wrote:
[...]
> Though I'm hardpressed to explain why, using "require" instead of
> "use" seems to be more canonical when dynamically loading modules.

That's because, in general, "use" is compile-time, and "require" is
done at run-time.

If you don't know what module you want until run-time, or
you don't know if a particular module will be needed ,"require"
is a good option.

Liam



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