On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:21:37PM -0500, Casey West wrote: : :On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 01:45:44PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: :: ::On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 11:50:54AM +0000, Tim Bunce wrote: ::> Early on in the life of Perl 5 Larry adopted the convention that ::> subroutines that Perl calls automatically for you should have ::> all-caps names[*]. :: ::Not early enough to catch import() though. Oh well ... Perl 6 will ::fix that. (For various definitions of "fix" ;-) : :import() is not called automatically by Perl. It's called :automatically by the module Exporter.pm. Subtle but important :difference there.
My bad, that's wrong. I think what my brain wanted to say is that it is lowercase because Exporter.pm came before use() or something like that. Where was my morning coffee hiding today? Casey West -- Shooting yourself in the foot with Cray You shoot yourself in the foot with an Uzi.
