[MacPerl] when / is :

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

Does anyone know all the situations when / can be used in place of : in
MacPerl?

I know, for example, that the following are mostly synonymous:

  require "Module/Thing.pm";
  require ":Module:Thing.pm";

(Although, this plays funky with %INC, and if you do both, then the module
gets required twice ... which is also the same thing that happens under
Unix if you do something like C<require 'foo.pl'; require './foo.pl';>.
But I digress.)

Anyway, where else does / mean :?  What anout ExtUtils::MM_MacOS, and
makefiles?  It would be nice to compile all the times / means :, just
because one doesn't want to get in trouble with using a / filename when it
might mess things up.  Of course, one should never put / in a filename ...

Smile, it's Friday!

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