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On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 14:46:35 -0800
Chad Granum <exodist7@gmail.com> wrote:
> What about auto-including the 'feature' if the very first line
> (second if there is a shebang) started with the 'module' keyword?
> That would be very unlikely to break compatibility with existing
> code, and allows less boilerplate for module-only files. Might not
> need the block scope in such cases either.
I think that was the conclusion we came to in Amsterdam.
*technically* it's possible someone might write some code like this,
but that's fantastically unlikely:
module($_) for qw( some args here );
sub module { ... }
Much less likely if you try to find something with the parens in there.
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