G'day All,

I'm intending to propose export tags for the builtin pragma. I'd appreciate any comments you may have about this. Thankyou.

A Brief History of the 'builtin' Pragma

• First introduced as an experimental pragma in Perl v5.36.0. See:
  • perl5360delta: builtin functions (experimental)
  • v5.36.0: builtin - Perl pragma to import built-in utility functions
• Still experimental in Perl v5.38.0. See:
  • v5.38.0: builtin - Perl pragma to import built-in utility functions
• In the development version of Perl v5.39.2, the experimental status was removed from many of the builtin pragma functions. See:
  • v5.39.2: builtin - Perl pragma to import built-in utility functions

My Usage of the 'builtin' Pragma

When released, I often play around with experimental features; however, I never use them in production-grade code. I did the same with the builtin pragma and found many to be useful: in some cases, I also found the import lists to be quite unwieldy.

When Perl v5.40.0 is released, presumably sometime next year, I will probably start using many of the stable functions provided by the builtin pragma in production-grade code. I would like easier to use import lists; accordingly, I'm proposing a number of export tags.

Proposed Export Tags for the 'builtin' Pragma

:bool

Exports: true, false, is_bool.

:weak

Exports: weaken, unweaken, is_weak.

:ref

Exports: blessed, refaddr, reftype.

:round

Exports: ceil, floor.

:stable

Exports all stable (i.e. non-experimental) functions.

:all

Exports all functions.

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