Perl 5.6 (?) introduced the new 'our' operator, which I have taken a liking to, as, once you understand the subtle differences between it and 'my' and 'local', it can improve readability and flexibility.

Is there anything wrong with declaring a typical package/module as follows:

package Xyz;

use strict;
use Exporter;

our (@EXPORT)    = qw [
        FunctionAlpha
        FunctionBravo
        FunctionCharlie
        $calarDelta
];
our (@EXPORT_OK) = qw [
        FunctionEcho
        $calarFoxtrot
];
our (@ISA)       = qw [ Exporter ];
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tilly's recent post, which was about the perils of BEGIN blocks, even though I recall that a while back they were 'the way to go' for export declarations, but this could have been an early Perl5 thing.

There are some curious things that some modules do to get things to run smoothly while under the influence of 'strict' and '-w', such as:

• Put @EXPORT/@ISA declarations inside of a BEGIN block
• 'use vars' for @EXPORT,@ISA
• Delay the insertion of 'use strict' to after the preamble
• Disable 'strict' temporarily to allow loading.

All of these seem a little excessive for something that should be pretty simple.

Once I tried to write a wrapper filter that would auto-export any functions tagged 'exportable' but this was a war I could not win. Maybe in Perl 6.

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