in reply to Re^3: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration?
in thread 'use' inside or outside of package declaration?

Because otherwise some of the pragmata will misbehave, because then you don’t enclue Perl6 that it’s come across a Perl5 module, and because it gratuitously complicates the tool-chain.
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Re^5: 'use' inside or outside of package declaration?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 12, 2011 at 00:10 UTC
    1. Because otherwise some of the pragmata will misbehave

      No. The pragmas (there is no such word in english as "pragmata"), behave exactly as they should.

      That is, the only pragma I use preceding the package statement, strict, functions perfectly both within the package and in the main at the end of the package.

      Equally, -w works just fine also.

    2. because then you don’t enclue Perl6 that it’s come across a Perl5 module,

      In the increasingly unlikely event that Perl6 is ever a real consideration, I seriously doubt that it will realistically be able to handle unmodified Perl5 modules reliably anyway.

      I would fully expect to have to re-work all of my modules for Perl6 to some degree, and that small thing would likely be the least problem of all. But I don't see any sign that I will be troubled to need to do so in the foreseeable future.

    3. and because it gratuitously complicates the tool-chain.

      "The tool-chain". What a wonderfully vague strawman that is.

      If there are tools out there that rely on such placement--that is neither mandated nor even advised by the language specification--then those tools are broken, "gratuitously" so, and should be fixed.

      Would you buy a hammer that required that all the nails you drive with it be vertically oriented, point down? Of course you wouldn't.


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