In Configure.pl, one of the things I do is include Data::Dumper if it's
there, and skip the part that needs it otherwise.  Unfortunately,
because of the compile-time nature of use, I can't do it.  Thus, I have
to use the following hack:

	my($DDOK)=eval {
		require Data::Dumper;
		import Data::Dumper;
		1;
	}

Ugly, no?  What I propose to fix it is that, if I do something like
this:

	$DDOK=1;
	try {
		use Data::Dumper;
	}
	catch {
		$DDOK=0;
	}

and Data::Dumper doesn't load, the use statement be transmogrified:

	$DDOK=1;
	try {
		throw "Can't find Data/Dumper.pm in \@INC (\@INC contains: @INC)";
	}
	catch {
		$DDOK=0;
	}

However, the transmogrification only occurs if a use is in a try block;
otherwise we get the same die-at-compile-time behavior.

In other words, I want exceptions thrown at compile-time to be catchable
at run-time by surrounding try blocks.  Are there any barriers to this
working?  If so, what are they?

--Brent Dax
brentdax@[...].org

They *will* pay for what they've done.