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There should not be an import{} method at all.
Graham.
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 03:51:47AM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> Historical accident fixed, in the hope that someone will tell me what
> I'm missing. Was it merely an oversight that this wasn't fixed earlier,
> or does somebody rely on the Exporter behaviour?
>
> "These subroutines should NOT be imported via use UNIVERSAL qw(...)",
> but would a patch which allowed this anyway (as Exporter does) be a
> better idea? Or do we need an import at all?
>
> - ams
>
> --- perl@9818/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm~ Thu Apr 26 03:14:28 2001
> +++ perl@9818/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm Thu Apr 26 03:30:44 2001
> @@ -2,12 +2,7 @@
>
> our $VERSION = '1.00';
>
> -# UNIVERSAL should not contain any extra subs/methods beyond those
> -# that it exists to define. The use of Exporter below is a historical
> -# accident that should be fixed sometime.
> -require Exporter;
> -*import = \&Exporter::import;
> -@EXPORT_OK = qw(isa can);
> +sub import { }
>
> 1;
> __END__
>
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