How is that possible? Sure you can redefine _, but that won't do any blessing at compile time.
Quite possible. My webapp is large, and runs within mod_perl, so I have an initialisation process which loads most required modules at the beginning. In my i18n class, which gets loaded as early as possible, I have this code:
{
no warnings 'redefine';
sub compile_mode {
*::_ = sub { i18n::String->new(@_) };
}
sub run_mode {
*::_ = sub { $i18n::Current_Lang->maketext(@_) };
}
}
BEGIN {
compile_mode();
}
Once initialisation is finished, my loader calls i18n::run_mode. If I need to require any large modules that belong to my app during runtime, instead of using the require builtin, I call i18n::i18n_require('Module::Name'):
sub i18n_require {
my $original = my $path = shift;
i18n::compile_mode();
$path=~s{::}{/}g;
my $error;
eval {require $path.'.pm'}
or $error = $@ || 'Unknown error';
i18n::run_mode();
die( sprintf( "Error loading '%s' at %s line %d:\n%s\n",
$original, (caller)[ 1, 2 ], $error
)
) if $error;
return $INC{$path};
}
I tried overriding UNIVERSAL::require, but certain modules outside my control didn't appreciate that. Anyway, doing it this way is explicit, and only a few characters more.
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