Comments on: Day 12: Modules and Exporting http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/day-12-modules-and-exporting/ Something cool about Perl 6 every day Sun, 03 Feb 2013 05:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sid Burn http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/day-12-modules-and-exporting/#comment-95 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:16:49 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-95 Can i don’t choose the name under which a function gets imported? Like Sub::Exporter under Perl 5 does provide it?

use Module format => { -as => ‘module_format’ }

The shown is just good for the module writers but for the user that uses the module there is no benefit. If you have different modules that all want to import “format” then you have the same problem like in Perl 5. Calling it with the module name or doing the importing yourself because the language is not flexible enough.

]]> By: Gorm http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/day-12-modules-and-exporting/#comment-94 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:15:01 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-94 Interesting. Some quick questions:

Is it possible to explicitly specify none of the methods for export (maybe you are trying to minimize namespace pollution)?

Can the ‘use’ statement export methods of the module being used by name regardless of tags?

Lastly, for classes, to make use of export methods, that means the programmer has to call ‘use <classname>;’ at some point right? Or maybe export happens when the class is instantiated (yikes!)?

]]> By: bened http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2009/12/12/day-12-modules-and-exporting/#comment-93 Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:30:10 +0000 http://perl6advent.wordpress.com/?p=236#comment-93 Finally no “use Exporter … blablabla …” anymore! I still don’t have this stuff memorized after several years of Perl 5 Programming… Maybe that’s a good rule when developing the syntax of a feature of a programming language: It’s not good if you haven’t memorized it after using it a few times.

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