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On Fri, Jun 24, 2022, at 11:44, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans wrote:
> Perhaps it should take a whole kv-list of name/ref pairs, so you can export lots in one go:
>
> builtin::lexically_export
> one => \&one,
> two => \&two, ...
>
> Though maybe it would be bad to encourage that because really the caller ought to be specifying just a few symbols they want. Hmm.
I think this is great. I think supplying multiple arguments is fine. The caller can specify what they want and the callee can behave accordingly.
sub import ($self, @names) {
die "unknown exports" if @names != grep {; defined } @EXPORTS{ @names };
builtin::lexically_export %EXPORTS{ @names };
}
> Also, while syntactically this is written out "like a normal function"
> and thus could go in `builtin::`, I wonder if it's a good fit here. It
> can only possibly work during BEGIN time, because it affects the
> compiletime lexical environment of the code being compiled. It isn't
> useful at runtime. It syntactically looks like a regular function but
> it doesn't really behave like one.
I think it's fine. I don't know that we actually have anything that "looks like it would happen at compile time". We could perhaps issue a warning if it was called when nothing was being compiled?
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rjbs
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