You know, that is a very cool module. I never would have looked for that under 'Business', though.... guess I've got my library blinders on :-)
And I think I "get" EXPORT now. Thanks. So much to learn, so little time.... -David On Tuesday 24 June 2003 03:51 pm, Andy Lester wrote: > >Whether you use the "indirect object" form of method call as you're doing > >above, or the "object-oriented" form, the class name determines where Perl > >will find the new() method. Since there isn't a class named literally > >"ILLString", Perl will complain about the latter call above (as you've no > >doubt discovered). > > That's true, but what we're talking about isn't necessarily objects. > Please see my previous message about using the Exporter module to > export function names into the caller's namespace. > > Take a look at, for example, Business::ISBN: > > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/perl-isbn/Business/ISBN/ISBN >.pm?rev=1.70&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup > > That @EXPORT_OK array defines the names that get CAN get exported > when someone does a use, like: > > use Business::ISBN qw( is_valid_checksum ); > > The function is still Business::ISBN::is_valid_checksum, but there's > (effectively) an alias to it from main::is_valid_checksum(). > > xoa
