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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".
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