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On Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:12:30 -0700 Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > On 2022-06-21 11:43 p.m., Yuki Kimoto wrote: > > 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". > > I will repeat (reworded) something I said before, which is that I > feel this feature should be renamed, as yield_true is clearly and > repeatedly giving people the wrong idea for what it does Back in the very beginning I first mentioned the name "yield_true", and I said: > On those latter two points: I could imagine that use v7 enables some > features to get those. Lets call them for sake of argument > > use feature qw( export_attr yield_true ) -- https://github.com/Perl/RFCs/pull/11#issuecomment-1022388554 I probably should have made clearer, that was just a 5-second thought of a name. I don't think it's a very good name, I just made it up for the comment to close that PR. It is verymuch still in need of a better name :) -- Paul "LeoNerd" Evans leonerd@leonerd.org.uk | https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS http://www.leonerd.org.uk/ | https://www.tindie.com/stores/leonerd/Thread Previous | Thread Next