Load .pmc always, even if they are older than a matching .pm file.

(This trick is going to be used by pugs.)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@27483

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod
index 4184c8ee55..8b12f989af 100644
--- a/pod/perlfunc.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod
@@ -4538,14 +4538,12 @@ will complain about not finding "F<Foo::Bar>" there.  In this case you can do:
 
         eval "require $class";
 
-Now that you understand how C<require> looks for files in the case of
-a bareword argument, there is a little extra functionality going on
-behind the scenes.  Before C<require> looks for a "F<.pm>" extension,
-it will first look for a filename with a "F<.pmc>" extension.  A file
-with this extension is assumed to be Perl bytecode generated by
-L<B::Bytecode|B::Bytecode>.  If this file is found, and its modification
-time is newer than a coinciding "F<.pm>" non-compiled file, it will be
-loaded in place of that non-compiled file ending in a "F<.pm>" extension.
+Now that you understand how C<require> looks for files in the case of a
+bareword argument, there is a little extra functionality going on behind
+the scenes.  Before C<require> looks for a "F<.pm>" extension, it will
+first look for a similar filename with a "F<.pmc>" extension. If this file
+is found, it will be loaded in place of any file ending in a "F<.pm>"
+extension.
 
 You can also insert hooks into the import facility, by putting directly
 Perl code into the @INC array.  There are three forms of hooks: subroutine