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From:
Darren Duncan
Date:
September 19, 2022 03:34
Subject:
Re: module loading built-in
Message ID:
f3f61f5c-0459-7498-e7b7-f31a963428c0@darrenduncan.net
On 2022-09-18 7:06 p.m., Matthew Horsfall (alh) wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 10:13 AM Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
> <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 09:54:27 -0400
>> "Ricardo Signes" <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This became a formal proposal
>>> <https://github.com/Perl/RFCs/blob/main/rfcs/rfc0006.md>, which I
>>> think is more or less ready to implement.  *Who would like to
>>> implement it?*  Many people who write in Perl 5 would benefit from
>>> such a builtin, and I believe it should be relatively straightforward.
>>
>> I don't want to add it to my plate of things, but I'd be happy to
>> handhold a volunteer through the overall process.
> 
> I took a stab at it here:
> 
>    https://github.com/Perl/perl5/pull/20316
> 
> -- Matthew Horsfall (alh)

Thank you for doing that.

Are you planning to also do other related routines besides "load" itself?

Also there's still the open question of whether we want this to have a different 
name for "load", however changing that can be done in a subsequent pull request 
rather than holding up this one.

-- Darren Duncan


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