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All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report

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  • Sounds like the wrong solution. There are lots of valid reasons that the module in memory might not match the one on disk. For instance someone could have created new functions by assigning to a typeglob or calling eval.

    For most cases, a module similar to Apache::Reload is right. Put in a check for which modules have changed on disk since you loaded them, then reload them.

    That doesn't help you in the case you have. But it is easy to create a module that redefines use and require. If you try to use

    • Actually I don’t think it is a bad idea at all. You are right that this is not applicable in all cases in Perl because Perl was not designed to facilitate such usage. However, think Smalltalk, where a lot of “magic” is no problem because what you are browsing is the live in-memory representation of the program and so you see what it looks like after the meta-program parts have taken place.

      This is just the same thing for Perl. Of course it’s not going to work nearly as well in Perl… but it’s worth a try anyway.

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