Bug #83596 for Module-Find: Documentation doesn't describe behaviour if a module fails to load

Sun Feb 24 10:53:36 2013 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Ticket created

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Documentation doesn't describe behaviour if a module fails to load

Hi, I just had to look at the source to find out what happens if you call useall() or usesub() and one of the modules found fails to load. I think it would be helpful to mention the behaviour in the doc. Cheers, Neil

Fri Feb 07 02:24:40 2014 crenz [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Thank you for your contribution, and your patience. I have updated the documentation in v0.12. I wonder whether it would be useful to have functions that try to load as many modules as possible, instead of dying?

Fri Feb 07 02:24:41 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Fri Feb 07 02:24:41 2014 crenz [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'

Fri Feb 07 02:24:42 2014 crenz [...] cpan.org - Taken

Fri Feb 07 02:24:42 2014 crenz [...] cpan.org - Fixed in 0.12 added

Sun Feb 09 18:03:20 2014 NEILB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

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> I wonder whether it would be useful to have functions that try to load > as many modules as possible, instead of dying?

Yes. This could be another function which would essentially be use-as-many-as-possible-of '...'. It could return two arrayrefs: the first being a list of the modules loaded, and the second being a list of the modules that failed to load. Or it could be an option to useall and usesub, that specifies the behaviour you want on failure: (a) die, (b) return a list of the modules loaded and the one that failed, or (c) continue regardless.