Casey West:
# 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.
Nope. 'use Foo;' is translated to 'BEGIN {require Foo; import Foo;}' by
Perl; Exporter just provides a default implementation of import().
--Brent Dax
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<obra> mmmm. hawt sysadmin chx0rs
<lathos> This is sad. I know of *a* hawt sysamin chx0r.
<obra> I know more than a few.
<lathos> obra: There are two? Are you sure it's not the same one?
