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On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Karl Williamson
<public@khwilliamson.com> wrote:
> It has been proposed that charnames automatically load when a \N{} is seen.
> That is easy to do, and I think it should load as if the :full and :short
> options had both been specified.
>
> Does anyone disagree with doing this?
What are the pros and cons, specifically, of choosing either or both
of :full and :short? Would it be loaded at compile time or runtime?
> If it is done, should the functions in the module also autoload. That is,
> should a line like 'my $poo = charnames::viacode(0x1F4A9)' fail if charnames
> hasn't been 'used' or 'required' or should it cause the module to load ?
I don't like general-purpose auto-loading. However, I can see the
case for \N{} (just I saw the case for autoloading IO::File when
methods are called on filehandles. If \N{} does load charnames, then
I would expect charnames::viacode(...) to work. However, without
prior \N{} (assuming compile-time loading), I would expect
charnames::viacode() to be a compilation error.
-- David
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