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Re: Curiosity: Perl File Extension in Emacs Config


From: John Bokma
Subject: Re: Curiosity: Perl File Extension in Emacs Config
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:55:25 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> what's the “.al” for?

 "As an example, if POSIX.pm is located in
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm, AutoLoader will look for perl
  subroutines POSIX in /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/POSIX/*.al, where the
  .al file has the same name as the subroutine, sans package. If such a
  file exists, AUTOLOAD will read and evaluate it, thus (presumably)
  defining the needed subroutine. AUTOLOAD will then goto the newly
  defined subroutine."

http://perldoc.perl.org/AutoLoader.html

-- 
John Bokma                                                               j3b

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