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Hello,
I've been asking myself if it's not too wild to make the package
keyword return true if it's used with a BLOCK if everything inside it is
OK. Since I don't know enough about perl internals, I thought to seek
out to the people who know best, so please try to see this as a .
If package BLOCK returned true, packages that only declare a class would
be relieved of having to put the 1; at the end of the package, which I
think is one of Perls' warts.
A file like:
---- FILE Class.pm -----
package MyClass {
}
------------------------
would simply work when used.
From a backcompat point of view, if there is more code after the
package, that would be evaluated normally, so all old code should work.
---- FILE Class.pm -----
package MyClass {
}
0;
------------------------
shouldn't let you use it.
I think this is only appliable to "package BLOCK" and "package VERSION
BLOCK", but if you write Modern Perl, it would be helpful.
I'm sorry I don't know enough about perls' internals to make a patch,
but I'd be happy to write tests if p5p thinks it's a sane feature to have.
Best Regards,
Jose Luis Martinez
JLMARTIN on CPAN
jlmartinez@capside.com