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From:
schwern
Date:
October 6, 2003 13:40
Subject:
Re: require UNIVERSAL;
Message ID:
20031006133949.L20960@ttul.org
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 09:31:46PM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> > Evil is Good. :)
> >
> > Anyhow, it doesn't have the UNIVERSAL.pm import side effect AFAIK.
> 
> I don't see how not, it does
> 
> package UNIVERSAL;
> use Exporter::Lite qw(import);

Exporter::Lite is not as persnickity as Exporter.  It will exit silently if
the module has no @EXPORT*... usually.  I think this is a happy accident, but
I'm not above claiming it as a brilliant design decision. :)


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