perl-Class-Loader -- Load modules and create objects on demand<hr>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Loader/">http://search.cpan.org/dist/Class-Loader/</a><hr>
Certain applications like to defer the decision to use a particular
module till runtime. This is possible in perl, and is a useful trick
in situations where the type of data is not known at compile time and
the application doesn't wish to pre-compile modules to handle all types
of data it can work with. Loading modules at runtime can also provide
flexible interfaces for perl modules.  Modules can let the programmer
decide what modules will be used by it instead of hard-coding their names.

Class::Loader is an inheritable class that provides a method, _load(),
to load a module from disk and construct an object by calling its
constructor. It also provides a way to map modules' names and associated
metadata with symbolic names that can be used in place of module names
at _load().
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