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From:
Yuki Kimoto
Date:
June 22, 2022 06:44
Subject:
Re: Pre-RFC: yield true feature
Message ID:
CAExogxNsT1YTStHjVq5VfUxu3yf+n=SpMJFFcY=txHXn0pipJQ@mail.gmail.com
2022-6-22 15:29 Dan Book <grinnz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 2:00 AM Martijn Lievaart <m@rtij.nl> wrote:
>
>> Op 22-06-2022 om 03:55 schreef Nicolas Mendoza:
>>
>> Are there examples of people utilizing the last/return value of a
>> included file to state an error in CPAN or in the wild?
>>
>>
>> I use this to load specific implementations of generic subs. By do-ing a
>> specific file which returns the sub, I load a reference to the correct
>> implementation for this run.
>>
>
> The behavior of "do" is not affected by what's being discussed here.
>
> -Dan
>

There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding and confusion due to the
feature name ”yeald_true” and the reference implementation "true.xs".

I think the correct feature name is a shortened name for "require ignores
the return value of the module file to check if the module was loaded
successfully".

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