On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:45:44PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: : :On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:50:54AM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: :> Early on in the life of Perl 5 Larry adopted the convention that :> subroutines that Perl calls automatically for you should have :> all-caps names[*]. : :Not early enough to catch import() though. Oh well ... Perl 6 will :fix that. (For various definitions of "fix" ;-)
import() is not called automatically by Perl. It's called automatically by the module Exporter.pm. Subtle but important difference there. Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Mach The bullets work pretty well, but they don't make guns for it any more.
