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Postings from February 2003
Fergal Daly:
# If accepted this patch will allow hundreds of lines of fiddling with
# EXPORT_BLAH to be deleted from Perl modules.
#
# The patch barely touches the original code and is totally backwards
# compatible. All it does is give a nice way to set up @EXPORT
# and all the
# others without have to explicitly mention them.
# T
# his time I diffed against the latest version of Exporter -
# 5.567. The patch
# includes tests and doc changes.
#
# In it's simplest case it allows you to replace
#
# require Exporter;
# use base qw( Exporter );
# use vars qw( @EXPORT );
# @EXPORT = qw( init );
#
# with
#
# use Exporter ( EXPORT => [qw( init )] );
My big problem with this patch is that this is a *huge* interface
change. I'm worried about how hard this will fail if you use a module
with an older Perl (is there a word for this?):
C:\>perl -we "use Exporter ( EXPORT => [qw( init )] )"
"EXPORT" is not exported by the Exporter module at -e line 1
"ARRAY(0x1ab29c4)" is not exported by the Exporter module at -e
line 1
Can't continue after import errors at -e line 1
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
It doesn't fail silently, but it's not exactly friendly either. At the
*absolute* minimum, bump the version up to 5.6 so we can easily say:
use Exporter 5.6 ( ... );
Which gives:
C:\>perl -we "use Exporter 5.6 ( EXPORT => [qw( init )] )"
Exporter version 5.6 required--this is only version 5.562 at -e
line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
It'll be *much* easier to get people to type 5.6 than 5.568.
--Brent Dax <brentdax@cpan.org>
@roles=map {"Parrot $_"} qw(embedding regexen Configure)
>How do you "test" this 'God' to "prove" it is who it says it is?
"If you're God, you know exactly what it would take to convince me. Do
that."
--Marc Fleury on alt.atheism
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