Re: [PHP4BETA] 'use' keyword

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