Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: perldb changes (or bug in manual) Message-ID: Date: 26 Aug 90 17:59:05 GMT References: <1990Aug26.055821.22669@tc.fluke.COM> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: dcd@tc.fluke.COM's message of 26 Aug 90 05:58:21 GMT Hear, hear! [dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck)] >> 1) Why doesn't 'require' look in the current directory first? As the author of the original &require(), I agree with this sentiment. Having "." implicitly included at the END of the search path is not useful -- the whole reason for having things in "." is to override the library version of some thing. Larry -- please change! PL28 is broken enough and new enough that this behaviour isn't cast in stone yet. -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie