NAME

       if - "use" a Perl module if a condition holds (also can "no" a module)

SYNOPSIS

         use if CONDITION, MODULE => ARGUMENTS;
         no if CONDITION, MODULE => ARGUMENTS;

DESCRIPTION

       The "if" module is used to conditionally load or unload another module.  The construct

         use if CONDITION, MODULE => ARGUMENTS;

       will load MODULE only if CONDITION evaluates to true.  The above statement has no effect
       unless "CONDITION" is true.  If the CONDITION does evaluate to true, then the above line
       has the same effect as:

         use MODULE ARGUMENTS;

       The use of "=>" above provides necessary quoting of "MODULE".  If you don't use the fat
       comma (eg you don't have any ARGUMENTS), then you'll need to quote the MODULE.

   EXAMPLES
       The following line is taken from the testsuite for File::Map:

         use if $^O ne 'MSWin32', POSIX => qw/setlocale LC_ALL/;

       If run on any operating system other than Windows, this will import the functions
       "setlocale" and "LC_ALL" from POSIX.  On Windows it does nothing.

       The following is used to deprecate core modules beyond a certain version of Perl:

         use if $] > 5.016, 'deprecate';

       This line is taken from Text::Soundex 3.04, and marks it as deprecated beyond Perl 5.16.
       If you "use Text::Soundex" in Perl 5.18, for example, and you have used warnings, then
       you'll get a warning message (the deprecate module looks to see whether the calling module
       was "use"'d from a core library directory, and if so, generates a warning), unless you've
       installed a more recent version of Text::Soundex from CPAN.

       You can also specify to NOT use something:

        no if $] ge 5.021_006, warnings => "locale";

       This warning category was added in the specified Perl version (a development release).
       Without the 'if', trying to use it in an earlier release would generate an unknown warning
       category error.

BUGS

       The current implementation does not allow specification of the required version of the
       module.

SEE ALSO

       Module::Requires can be used to conditionally load one or modules, with constraints based
       on the version of the module.  Unlike "if" though, Module::Requires is not a core module.

       Module::Load::Conditional provides a number of functions you can use to query what modules
       are available, and then load one or more of them at runtime.

       provide can be used to select one of several possible modules to load, based on what
       version of Perl is running.

AUTHOR

       Ilya Zakharevich <mailto:ilyaz@cpan.org>.