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Horsley Tom <Tom.Horsley@ccur.com> writes: > >Now, if I'm understanding all this, we are going to explicitly look >through the source for colliding names and automatically cause those >modules to be POLLUTed? The "look through the source" worries me. For several reasons: 1. More complex/creative modules may hide the source in strange places. 2. If you do find all of Tk's source greping it may take some time. 3. Grepping needs to be done carefully I don't want e.g. #undef dirty To trigger "ah ha! this module is using 'dirty' better compile it with POLLUTE=1" When the code in question is specifically to work round pollution in older perls! At very least I ask there be something those of us that are hurt by the pollution and/or have taken the trouble to do the right thing can put in Makefile.PL to force the issue. -- Nick Ing-Simmons