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Re: [PHP4BETA] 'use' keyword From: Stig Bakken (ssb <email protected>)
Date: 12/01/99

On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Zeev Suraski wrote:

| At 23:31 01/12/1999 , Andrei Zmievski wrote:
| >On Wed, 01 Dec 1999, Andi Gutmans wrote:
| > > At 01:21 PM 12/1/99 -0600, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
| > > >Does new 'use' keyword automatically set $USED_PACKAGES entry or not?
| > >
| > > No it just makes sure that this file hasn't been required twice. Do we
| > want
| > > it to do something else?
| >
| >Yes, I think Stig talked about setting $USED_PACKAGES["foo"] = <full
| >path to foo> when 'use foo' is used.
|
| I thought he meant that as in pseudo code, and not really keep it in that
| $USED_PACKAGES variable. As a rule I think we should avoid using globals
| at all, I think it opens an endless amount of possible security breaches,
| and generally isn't a Good Thing.
| How about a function, get_used_packages() that would return such an array?

Sure. I just wanted the possibility to check whether a package is loaded.

 - Stig 

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