Re: Naming help needed for evil @INC hackery

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My first thought was to question whether INC needed to be a whole level 
in the
name, but... upon consideration, yes, because it's the main point of the 
module.
Plus, there's precedence in Devel-INC-Sorted.

So my next thought is the third-level name. I'd drop the "My" and the 
"First"
and just call it Devel-INC-Subrefs. Justification for dropping "My" 
being, well,
whose else modules would you be wrapping; and justification for dropping 
"First"
is that I could very well see an option for putting them in other 
positions as a
possibility (e.g., after=>"Games::*"), so why limit yourself?

     -john

On 10/6/2015 10:29 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
> One of my modules is Sub::WrapPackages. It has a feature where you can 
> invoke it once and it will both wrap itself around code that's already 
> been loaded, but will also lurk in the background and do Things to 
> code that is loaded in the future. It does this by dropping sub-refs 
> in @INC. It also subverts 'use lib' so that if you 'use lib' after it 
> has dropped its magic into @INC, it silently moves its sub-refs to the 
> front of @INC.
>
> The code for this is quite simple and right at the end of 
> Sub::WrapPackages:
> https://metacpan.org/source/DCANTRELL/Sub-WrapPackages-2.0/lib/Sub/WrapPackages.pm#L337 
>
>
> I now find that I need this functionality in another module, so I'm 
> going to rip it out and upload it to the CPAN as a seperate 
> distribution that will let you register sub-refs to do this with. But 
> what to call that?
>
> Devel::INC::MySubrefsFirst?
>
> I think that sucks, but I can't think of anything better that is still 
> reasonably short. Anyone got any better suggestions?
>

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