I think the name is unhelpfully gimicky.
Tim.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 04:10:33AM +0200, Perl Authors Upload Server wrote:
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> The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
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> modid: Pollute
> DSLIP: Rdphp
> description: Many modules can now be bundled into one.
> userid: DAVIDNICO (David Nicol)
> chapterid: 2 (Perl_Core_Modules)
> communities:
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> similar:
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> rationale:
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> Modules export their functionality into the package where they are
> invoked, this is called "name space pollution." If you want to have
> all of your packages use the same several modules, you can use
> Pollute.pm to create an "include file" kind of module which will
> import all the imported symbols from the other modules. When Pollute
> is used, it takes a census of the symbols. Then Pollute() is called
> and new symbols are aliased into the caller's caller's package.
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> Pollute::Persistent is an even tighter way of creating an "include
> file" module: its import method clobbers the caller's import method
> with a self-modifying version of &Pollute::Pollute that maintains a
> persistent list of the symbols that need to get updated when the
> "include module" is used; opposed to regular Pollute, which requires
> all of the modules' import methods to be run every time.
>
> enteredby: DAVIDNICO (David Nicol)
> enteredon: Wed Aug 22 02:10:33 2001 GMT
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> The resulting entry would be:
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> Pollute Rdphp Many modules can now be bundled into one. DAVIDNICO
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