Well yeah, I guess if those modules are supposed to export functions ° and you call them without parens this might produce bareword errors (and many others).

So declaring a sub syntactic_sugar is already also changing syntax, because it allows to call them as barewords.

Hence you'll need to fake-export them too. ;)

UPDATE

"Hence you'll need to fake-export them too. ;)"

Yes, I was aware of that and even considered doing it. The main criteria, when thinking about doing that, were: how long that would take; how long disaster recovery would take; and, what useful coding I would not be doing while doing this instead.

I tend not to make too many mistakes. Mostly they involve keyboard errors: not pressing or releasing the shift key fast enough; hitting an adjacent key by mistake; and the like. E.g.

my @x = qw{a b c}: # slow release of shift: got ':' instead of ';'
my $y - $x[2];     # hit adjacent key: got '-' instead of '='
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Thankfully these are pretty rare and easily fixed.

Other types of errors, such as logic errors, are not syntax errors and are only found when testing.

— Ken

> how long that would take; how long disaster recovery would take; and, what useful coding I would not be doing while doing this instead.

yeah, that's what I meant initially, how much does one want to invest for a temporary 90% solution.

But this thread has also become an intellectual challenge and it's still possible to have a better solution.

So for completeness:

The dynamic %INC hook shown here could be extended to provide an import routine which exports all symbols requested.

This won't cover subs with special prototypes or subs which are exported by defaults though, but will get you closer to your "unreasonable" goal. ;-)

Cheers Rolf
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