Re: use x; equivalent

pack is a Perl keyword, so the parser doesn't know what to do with that construct. I suggest changing the name of your module.

Of course, if the documentation had shown the unbroken way to call class methods, you wouldn't have had this problem:

BEGIN
{
    require pack;
    pack::->import();
}
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Update: fixed the code to use the really unambiguous way.

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Re^2: use x; equivalent by unclesmiff (Initiate) on Feb 22, 2006 at 18:13 UTC
Thank you chromatic et al. I changed the name to packe and it worked. I was also wondering how to get debug from the importer, I thought this might work, but no. it doesn't print anything. `BEGIN { require packe; $Exporter::Verbose=1; import packe; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: use x; equivalent by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 22, 2006 at 18:04 UTC
Even using your 'unbroken' way, I get `Not enough arguments for pack at -e line 1, near "pack;" Not enough arguments for pack at -e line 1, near "pack->import" BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at -e line 1.` [download] perl v5.6.1	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: use x; equivalent by vladb (Vicar) on Feb 22, 2006 at 17:57 UTC
Good catch, chromatic! Gees, however I missed that!.. (feeling red faced now) _____________________ "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." - Robert Wilensky, University of California	[reply]