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On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:03:35 -0700, 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.
/me is in favor!
> Does anyone disagree with doing this?
When I use charnames, it is always like
use charnames ":alias" => ":pro";
would autoloading charnames support a default like that? Guess not.
No problem, just to note ...
> 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 ?
No, as the functions are fully qualified, they should not fail
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