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Re: [Omaha.pm] Safely instantiate (or not) a class that may or may notexist?

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Subject: Re: [Omaha.pm] Safely instantiate (or not) a class that may or may notexist?
From: "Kenneth Thompson" <kthompson@omnihotels.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:14:10 -0600
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Any chance this approach might work?

  my $obj = ref("${namespace}::${partner_id}::OutboundHeader");
  my $class = $obj || "";
  return 1 if $class
  
(Completely untested, and off the top of my head...)
  


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Howdy! I've got a chuck of code. For most partner_id's, I have an
OutboundHeader. For some, though, I don't. So I'm trying to safely trap
the possible non-existance using eval like so:

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