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At 11:01 AM 2/2/2001 -0500, John Porter wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> >
> > The last
> > thing I want is for every module to automagically export all (or even
> some)
> > of its functions. That way lies namespace pollution *real* fast.
>
>I don't see why this is a concern. Unless some explicit arrangement
>is made for CGI to export param (following the example), a call to
>unqualified param() in user code shouldn't find CGI::param,
>automagically loaded or otherwise.
It's the explicit exporting that I'm concerned about. Perhaps I'm being
overly worried, but it strikes me that if all a module needs to do to get
on the autoload list is have an @EXPORT_AUTO declaration at the top (or
something similar) we're going to see it abused rather badly.
Dan
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