[Catalyst] 'require' vs 'use' in Catalyst*

[Joel Bernstein]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 10:28:47AM -0700, Rodney Broom wrote:
> Disliking the fact that require() doesn't call my import(), I'm trying to figure out why Catalyst (and so many other things) use require() over use(). I have to think there's a good reason that just isn't occuring to me.

require is runtime, use is compile-time.

Perl doesn't know at compile-time which plugins you're going to load.

That's why require is necessary.

In any case, use Foo is exactly equivalent to:
require Foo; Foo->import();

/joel