On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:49:57PM -0700, Sean M. Burke wrote: : Larry Wall wrote on Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:40:05 -0800: : >could certainly talk about improvements. As for per-document policy, : >there should certainly be some kind of : > : > =use module : > : >directive that, like Perl's C<use>, is something more than just an : >"include". : : I thought about putting something of the sort into perldpodspec and : Pod::Simple, but didn't see a particularly clean way to have it so that 1) : you wouldn't have to depend on a particular Pod-parsing module, and which : 2) could work in cases where the Pod-parser and the formatter are sanely : segregated.
I'd say that neither of those characteristics is true of Perl 5's C<use>, and yet that's how we got CPAN. Cleanliness is nice, but extensibility is crucial. Larry
