RE: Oddities

Interesting ... when I do

use POSIX qw(strftime locale_h);
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I get ":locale_h" is not exported by the POSIX module at locale.pl

But when I do

use POSIX qw(locale_h strftime);
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Everything's fine ..

So, who knows what's going on? Is this some kinda weird bug, or is it documented behavior?

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RE (tilly) 2: Oddities by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 28, 2000 at 02:49 UTC
I don't think it is documented, and it is due to trying to grandfather something in. POSIX.pm has an import method which is a wrapper around Exporter which is meant to allow things matching `/^\w+_h$/` to have ":" appended making them tags. If you look at Exporter's documentation, tags for groups only work if the first element is a tag. So in your first example the second element is turned into a tag, and Exporter barfs on it not being exported. In your second example all works. For a hack to fix it, find `POSIX.pm`, search for "import", and add a sort of @list before it calls Exporter's import function.	[reply]

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RE (tilly) 2: Oddities
by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 28, 2000 at 02:49 UTC

POSIX.pm has an import method which is a wrapper around Exporter which is meant to allow things matching /^\w+_h$/ to have ":" appended making them tags. If you look at Exporter's documentation, tags for groups only work if the first element is a tag. So in your first example the second element is turned into a tag, and Exporter barfs on it not being exported. In your second example all works.

For a hack to fix it, find POSIX.pm, search for "import", and add a sort of @list before it calls Exporter's import function.

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