From: John Bokma <john@castleamber.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Curiosity: Perl File Extension in Emacs Config
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:55:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5mnl9le.fsf@castleamber.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d0b3546e-60a7-4b3d-9583-5403db8a0868@googlegroups.com
Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
> what's the “.al” for?
"As an example, if POSIX.pm is located in
/usr/local/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm, AutoLoader will look for perl
subroutines POSIX in /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/POSIX/*.al, where the
.al file has the same name as the subroutine, sans package. If such a
file exists, AUTOLOAD will read and evaluate it, thus (presumably)
defining the needed subroutine. AUTOLOAD will then goto the newly
defined subroutine."
http://perldoc.perl.org/AutoLoader.html
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-13 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-13 17:10 Curiosity: Perl File Extension in Emacs Config Xah Lee
2012-07-13 19:55 ` John Bokma [this message]
2012-07-14 4:10 ` Xah Lee
2012-07-15 3:52 ` John Bokma
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