NAME

Module::Runtime - runtime module handling

DESCRIPTION

The functions exported by this module deal with runtime handling of

Perl modules, which are normally handled at compile time.  This module

avoids using any other modules, so that it can be used in low-level

infrastructure.

The parts of this module that work with module names apply the same syntax

that is used for barewords in Perl source.  In principle this syntax

can vary between versions of Perl, and this module applies the syntax of

the Perl on which it is running.  In practice the usable syntax hasn't

changed yet.  There's some intent for Unicode module names to be supported

in the future, but this hasn't yet amounted to any consistent facility.

The functions of this module whose purpose is to load modules include

workarounds for three old Perl core bugs regarding "require".  These

workarounds are applied on any Perl version where the bugs exist, except

for a case where one of the bugs cannot be adequately worked around in

pure Perl.

INSTALLATION

	perl Build.PL

	./Build

	./Build test

	./Build install

AUTHOR

Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2017

Andrew Main (Zefram) <zefram@fysh.org>

LICENSE

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it

under the same terms as Perl itself.