On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:40 PM, Linda Walsh via RT < perlbug-comment@perl.org> wrote: > If something is going to export that many symbols by default, > it would seem care should be taken not to overwrite the names if > they are already in use. If warnings are issued, it would be > more appropriate (in the *default* case on this module), to > put the errors in $@ and developers who were concerned that > they got the right module from POSIX, could check $@. > Expecting people to replace all isntance of use Module; with BEGIN { require Module; warn $@ if $@; } is ludicrous, not "more appropriate".Thread Previous | Thread Next