In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Dax) wrote:
> krish:
> # I am a beginner in Perl and have a very trivial query. I have
> # some .expect
[...]
>
> This is the wrong group for this sort of question. perl6-internals is
s/internals/language/
but the rest does apply (it's
Richard J Cox:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Dax) wrote:
# > krish:
# > # I am a beginner in Perl and have a very trivial query. I have
# > # some .expect
# [...]
# >
# > This is the wrong group for this sort of question.
# perl6-internals is
#
# s/internals/language/
Doh! got the groups mixed up..
On Saturday 22 December 2001 02:29 am, Brent Dax wrote:
> I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to Exporter for
> Perl 6.
>
> 1. Choosing where to export to:
> use Data::Dumper 'Dumper' => 'dumpvar';
> #exports Data::Dumper::Dumper to Main::dump
Bryan C. Warnock:
# On Saturday 22 December 2001 02:29 am, Brent Dax wrote:
# > I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to
# Exporter for
# > Perl 6.
# >
# > 1. Choosing where to export to:
# > use Data::Dumper 'Dumper' => 'dumpvar';
# > #exports Data::
On Saturday 22 December 2001 05:40 am, Brent Dax wrote:
> BTW, can we genericize 'use' to work like an indirect-object method?
>
> use Data::Dumper;
> Data::Dumper.use; #same thing
Only if you can gel the compile-time semantics of compile-and-run.
> # Well, I can't get
> "BD" == Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BD> # > 1. Choosing where to export to:
BD> # > use Data::Dumper 'Dumper' => 'dumpvar';
BD> # > #exports Data::Dumper::Dumper to Main::dumpvar
BD> # (or whatever)
BD> #
BD> # Where to import to. It'
I've rearranged the proposed features a bit to put the long objections
at the bottom.
Brent Dax wrote:
> I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to Exporter for
> Perl 6.
> 3. Warnings about conflicts:
> use warnings 'Exporter';
> sub Dumper { ... }
> use Data::Dumpe
Michael G Schwern:
# I've rearranged the proposed features a bit to put the long objections
# at the bottom.
#
# Brent Dax wrote:
# > I've been thinking about improvements that could be made to
# Exporter for
# > Perl 6.
# > 3. Warnings about conflicts:
# > use warnings 'Exporter';
# > sub
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:20:08PM -0800, Brent Dax wrote:
> # However, shoving everything onto the use line seems of somewhat
> # dubious use. For starters, how do you say "don't export import()" and
> # "export these variables please" at the same time? You start getting
> # into special "dont_
