On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:38:17AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:41:03AM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> > >   The most straightforward solution to this problem to me looks like
> > >   providing a syntax equivalent like "from Module import foo, bar"
> > >   which selectively imports only some identifiers from a given module.
> > 
> > Again, Perl gets this mostly right, in that the module developer can
> > define "modes of use" of the module.  In Perl something like:
> > 
> >   use CGI qw(:standard);
> 
> That's interesting, but requires support in all involved library. Do
> you know how CPAN authors are required to annotate what is "standard"
> and what is not?

It's left to the module authors to define how these labels work,
although there are a lot of idiomatic uses.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat