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On 12/20/2011 10:07 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
> By commit fbb93542d6662666a88828fb4c15803f8ba377f0.
>
> The functions aren't autoloaded; there is no unimport method.
>
It occurred to me later that it might be useful to show the entire
commit message for this:
Autoload charnames for \N{name}
This autoloads charnames.pm when needed. It uses the :full and :short
options. :loose is not used because of its relative unfamiliarity in
the Perl community, and is slower. (If someone later added a typical
"use charnames qw(:full)", things that previously matched under :loose
would start to fail, causing confustion. If :loose does become more
common, we can change this in the future to use it; the converse isn't
true.)
The callable functions in the module are not automatically loaded. To
access them, an explicit "use charnames" must be provided.
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