NAME

Mrequire - require on Perl extensions at run time

SYNOPSIS

      require Mrequire;
      my $class = ('Foo::Bar', 'Bar::Baz')[int(rand + .5)];
      Mrequire::mrequire($class);
      &Mrequire::new($class, $arg1, $arg2, ...);

      use Mrequire qw(mrequire);
      mrequire(...)

DESCRIPTION

Mrequire can be used to dynamically load Perl extensions at run time. This becomes necessary if the decision of what kind of module you want to use (or is available at all) is made at run time.

In addition you can call constructor-like functions (which assume the package name as their first argument, see pertoot(1) for details) of dynamically loaded modules via Mrequire.

METHODS

mrequire($class)

       Does a "require" on package $class. If a respective library file
       cannot be loaded the process dies.

&Mrequire::constructor($class, $arg1, $arg2, ...)

       Calls function "constructor" in package $class. It is assumed that
       "constructor" expects the package name as a first argument.

BUGS

Yes. Please let me know!

SEE ALSO

perl(1), perltoot(1).

AUTHOR

Norbert Gövert <goevert@ls6.cs.uni-dortmund.de>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003 Norbert Gövert. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.