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2) why are we fully-qualifying the @ISA and @EXPORT arrays here

For one thing, it makes it easy to insert a "use strict;" line immediately after the package statement, which is often a good idea.

Also for 1), as noted elsewhere, each file serves as a separate lexical scope so the package declaration from Exporter doesn't "spill over" into the calling package. And for 3), there's no reason to avoid "use" -- either "use" or "require" would be fine in this context.

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Re: Re: packages and Exporter
by xenchu (Friar) on Dec 05, 2003 at 13:37 UTC
    Why would you insert the use strict; after the package instead of before it? What are the advantages of this?

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      Why would you insert the use strict; after the package instead of before it? What are the advantages of this?

      Why not? :-)

      The issue isn't whether the strict declaration is before/after the package declaration. The issue is ensuring that the declaration of the package globals doesn't cause a error when strict is being used.

      Using an explicit package name is one method. Using use vars or our are two others.

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