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On 12.05.2013 20:52, Linda Walsh via RT wrote: > On Sun May 12 11:02:49 2013, plokinom@gmail.com wrote: >>> The fact that it stomps on namespace and issues warnings for things as >>> it overwrites things that have not been explicitly imported seems an >>> unfriendly default for a CORE module, no? >> >> This is not a fact. What you're describing is not the default behavior > of anything. > ---- > It is the documented behavior of the POSIX module: > Everything is exported by default ... This is an unfortunate backwards > compatibility feature. Stop. Neither this bug nor your paragraph I quoted above are about POSIX exporting everything by default. The bug and the paragraph are about POSIX issuing warnings (allegedly). > --- > It is documented as an unfortunate feature. How would improving it to > not give warnings if something has already defined those modules NOT be > an improvement? In what possible circumstance could it break any > existing application? ... and now you're back to talking about warnings. Warnings that - I repeat - are not the default and only happen with -w. What exactly is your proposed change? > It would be completely backwards compatible, yet you and others prefer a > 20-y.o. interface that is documented, rather harshly for perl standards, > as being 'unfortunate'? I have no idea what you're talking about here. > Note: I confirmed your statement about the simple case for > putting "use CWD" after use POSIX", and cannot reproduce a test case > validating my initial claim... though, that said, I would be unlikely to > fabricate such a claim had I not observed it while investigating this > issue. > > However, I note that I was likely confused. youdontsay.jpg > Of the 61 places where grep > shows me using "use POSIX", it is *always* followed by a qw(xxx), so I > never experienced the default case... which I think could still be fixed > to not be as intrusive if there was any willingness to allow an updates > or contributions addressing the problem. 1. What exactly do you think is the problem? 2. What do you propose should be changed? -- Lukas Mai <plokinom@gmail.com>Thread Previous | Thread Next