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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Including home-rolled libraries
Message-ID: <11648@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:30:36 GMT
References: <16935@venera.isi.edu> <1991Feb28.130152.25669@cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
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In article <1991Feb28.130152.25669@cs.ruu.nl> piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) writes:
: So try to let the shell do the expansion:
: 
: require <~/.perlLib/random.pl>;

That's cute, but a lot less efficient (currently) than saying

  require "$ENV{'HOME'}/.perlLib/random.pl";

or, more to the point,

  unshift(@INC, "$ENV{'HOME'}/.perlLib");
  require "random.pl";

Larry