require bug?

[Philip Mak <pm...@aaanime.net>]

I noticed that the following bit of code does not work properly:

require 'test.pl';
chdir '..';
require 'test.pl';

Even though the second require is trying to load a different file, perl
thinks that it is the same file and therefore doesn't require it again (I
had to use the 'do' command instead).

Is this a bug, or is it supposed to work like that?

-Philip Mak (pmak@aaanime.net)

Re: require bug?

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

Philip Mak wrote:
> 
> I noticed that the following bit of code does not work properly:
> 
> require 'test.pl';
> chdir '..';
> require 'test.pl';
> 
> Even though the second require is trying to load a different file, perl
> thinks that it is the same file and therefore doesn't require it again (I
> had to use the 'do' command instead).
> 
> Is this a bug, or is it supposed to work like that?

It's not a bug. See
http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Name_collisions_with_Modules_and
for more info

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