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On 11/27/2011 03:43 PM, Ricardo Signes wrote: > * Karl Williamson<public@khwilliamson.com> [2011-11-27T17:30:08] >> I had prototyped #1 some time ago. I used a simple solution to >> avoid importing the functions, and that was to use undocumented >> mangled names for the function definitions in charnames.pm (simply >> prefixing them with an underscore, but further mangling could be >> done), and then in the import method, doing >> *charnames::viacode = *_viacode; >> *charnames::vianame = *_vianame; >> *charnames::string_vianame = *_string_vianame; >> >> Is this acceptable, or is a sub-module really needed? > > Won't this break (for example) Unicode::UCD, which does "use charnames ()" but > then calls charnames::viacode? > > That seems like a pattern we might find other places, too. grep.cpan.me is > down, but I found more than zero results with: > > http://www.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=%22use%20charnames%20%28%29%22%20lang:perl&p=1&type=cs > Doh! It's been long enough since I wrote this prototype that I forgot I never ran it through the test suite.Thread Previous | Thread Next