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On 18 December 2015 at 04:50, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote: > Chad Granum wrote: >>Several modern export tools such as Sub::Exporter and Exporter::Declare >>make it possible to rename subs that you import. > > Appealing though such features are, the exporting side is the wrong place > to do it, precisely because it would need to go into every exporter. I dont think this argument holds water in face of the number of Exporter like modules that exist that do this. Clearly there is a very strong need in the community for this feature. At work, I am often frustrated by an Exporter replacement that we use at least partly because Exporter does not support this feature. > Better to keep the exporter's obligations minimal, and address this > on the importing side. The facility can be written once to be applied > regardless of exporter type, and it only need be invoked by importing > modules that actually want to use the facility. I think you need to write this thing, and then show us what it looks like. Because I dont even get what you mean by this facility. How is such a facility any different from what the OP wants to add to Exporter? -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next