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authorTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2023-02-07 10:33:04 +1100
committerTony Cook <tony@develop-help.com>2023-02-08 13:42:50 +1100
commit6c19911f93fc29afe94cad617c6f2f3325ad77ba (patch)
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parent626df4fd56759528a170e821cab27f372b174496 (diff)
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perlfunc/require: Note that AUTOLOAD cannot resolve INCDIR
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@@ -6894,6 +6894,9 @@ Optional state for the subroutine. The state is passed in as C<$_[1]>.
=back
+C<AUTOLOAD> cannot be used to resolve the C<INCDIR> method, C<INC> is
+checked first, and C<AUTOLOAD> would resolve that.
+
If an empty list, L<C<undef>|/undef EXPR>, or nothing that matches the
first 3 values above is returned, then L<C<require>|/require VERSION>
looks at the remaining elements of L<C<@INC>|perlvar/@INC>.