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On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 5:42 AM Neil Bowers <neilb@neilb.org> wrote:
> I like the idea of syntactic support for function libraries, but I don’t
> like the proposed use of the word "module".
>
> We have existing, well-established, terminology where a *module* is a
> package in a .pm file of the corresponding name, and a module can either be
> a class *or* a function library (or the love child of both).
>
> I don’t have a great alternative to suggest ("sublibrary", "exporter",
> "library", … ?)
>
Each of these features can simply be implemented in the existing syntax and
no new keyword is needed.
-Dan
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