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On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 5:30 PM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote: > > * Should it support things other than functions? Should we support > > > > lexically_export VAR => \my $scalar; > > And this. > I'm concerned about this. Lexical import is designed to limit things to the current scope and not expose them to the outside world. Because you're exporting a reference, it's effectively a global variable. If more than one bit of code imports that reference and alters it, other bits of code might have already taken decisions based on that data, but the assumptions it relied on are no longer true. I've just spent several days chasing down a bug that's caused by this and I've had to do so multiple times for my current client. My client is losing money paying me to fix design flaws rather than build the new features they want. I'd rather not add another feature to Perl which encourages this practice. Curtis "Ovid" Poe CTO, All Around the World World-class software development and consulting https://allaroundtheworld.fr/Thread Previous | Thread Next