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Certain applications like to defer the decision to use a particular module
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till runtime. This is possible in perl, and is a useful trick in situations
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where the type of data is not known at compile time and the application
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doesn't wish to pre-compile modules to handle all types of data it can work
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with. Loading modules at runtime can also provide flexible interfaces for
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perl modules. Modules can let the programmer decide what modules will be
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used by it instead of hard-coding their names.
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Class::Loader is an inheritable class that provides a method, _load(), to
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load a module from disk and construct an object by calling its constructor.
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It also provides a way to map modules names and associated metadata with
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symbolic names that can be used in place of module names at _load().
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