Cool idea...
Having said that: Ye Gods, you're mad!
-steve
Mark Fowler wrote:
>
> Check the bugs section of (the yet unpublished) firstof.pm:
>
> CALLING TYPE BUG
> Rather than doing
>
> use \"Fred", Foo, Wibble;
>
> I'd like to do
>
> use Fred Foo, Wibble;
>
> Akin to what print does. But currently prototypes
> (and import) won't allow me to express this.
>
> And the section of 'perldoc -f use'
>
> use Module VERSION LIST
>
> <some stuff>
>
> If the VERSION argument is present between Module and LIST, then the
> use will call the VERSION method in class Module with the given
> version as an argument. The default VERSION method, inherited from
> the UNIVERSAL class, croaks if the given version is larger than the
> value of the variable $Module::VERSION.
>
> My question is, how evil would it be to override VERSION to do something
> that it was never, ever, designed for...
>
> Later
>
> Mark.
>
> P.S.
>
> http://2shortplanks.com/firstof/firstof.pm
> http://2shortplanks.com/firstof/firstof.html
>
> --
> print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
> Name => 'Mark Fowler', Title => 'Technology Developer' ,
> Firm => 'Profero Ltd', Web => 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
> Email => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone => '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
--
Steve Purkis Technical Architect
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