Michael Ellery wrote:
> Does anyone know if/how module names with dashes are supported in perl?
Not supported at all. Identifier can only be a string beginning with a letter
or underscore, and containing letters,
underscores, and digits. Package name is actually a namespace, which consists
of identifiers, divided by double colon or
apostrophe (old style, not recommended).
I'm not aware of any other programming language that supports hyphen as a part
of identifier, so it's strange that you
tried this with Perl.
> I just happened to name one of my packages with a dash in it and I
> wasn't able to load it ("use my-package;" fails with a strange error).
You are not even able to make this package pass syntax check, "package
anything-like-that;" construction should fail.
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Serguei Trouchelle
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