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On Fri, 28 May 2021 at 22:49, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > > Unclear from this discussion whether it was explicitly pointed out, but > one thing I'd like to see from the "keyword" functions is that they > *not* appear in the package's symbol table. Personally I would be opposed to anything that might mean that things work differently in older perls from newer. However concern over this point is part of the reason I advocate the "keyword" api supporting the following: use keyword "string::trimmed"; use keyword "string::trimmed" => "trim"; The first case would ensure that string::trimmed is available to you via the fully qualified name. The second form would modify your namespace as normal so that "string::trimmed" is available as "trim". We can do this in a totally backwards compatible way. Making "trim" be invisible would be nice, but only if it would also be invisible in older perls. cheers YvesThread Previous | Thread Next