We have an empty 'less' pragma in Perl 5, right?
use less '6';
use less '6' => 'path/to/perl/6/version';
--Brent Dax
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On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 04:22:33PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > Also it would cause "subroutine redefined" warnings in this sort of
> > code:
> >
> > use Exporter;
> > sub import {
> > ...
> > Exporter::export_to_level(...);
> > }
>
> Not if it's in EXPORT_OK, sur
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 01:11:21PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > > 4. For modules, saying 'use Exporter' should be enough to get import.
> > >If you don't want Exporter's import(), just C.
> >
> > Very nice. Exporter::Lite does just that.
>
> What actually stops us retrofitting that onto
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 07:47:31PM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> I've rearranged the proposed features a bit to put the long objections
> at the bottom.
>
> Brent Dax wrote:
> > I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to Exporter for
> > Perl 6.
> > 3. Warnings about conflic
On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:58:32AM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:20:08PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
> > I do think that we should get rid of '!symbol' and especially
> > '/regex/'; they seem like an unnecessary complication.
>
> Yeah, chuck 'em. It would be interesti
