Re: %::config oddity with 'useradmin_update.pl'

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Wil Cooley wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 17:28, Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>>What I usually have in my useradmin_update.pl script is a line at the top like :
>>
>>do 'mymodule-lib.pl';
>>
>>and in mymodule-lib.pl, lines like :
>>
>>do '../web-lib.pl';
>>&init_config();
>>
>>This sets %config just fine for me. require shouldn't be used in this case, because
>>Perl will not actually re-read web-lib.pl if it thinks that it has been require'd before!
> 
> 
> Should I infer then that I should be able to use "do" instead of
> 'require' in my useradmin_update.pl and have it work, or is there some
> Perl black magic I'm missing that makes chained "do"'s somehow
> different?

No black magic .. you should be able to use

do '../web-lib.pl';
&init_config();

in your useradmin_update.pl script with no problems.

  - Jamie