Re^5: How to import names from a dynamically required module

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Or you can use Math::BigInt->new, because the odds of there being a BigInt sub in the Math package are astronomical :)

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Re^6: How to import names from a dynamically required module by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 03, 2012 at 09:11 UTC
The odds are small, yes. In my decade plus of Perl usage I've encountered bugs because of this two, perhaps three, times. But each time it took me bloody ages to figure out, which is why I have been trying to avoid this ambiguity in recent work. The aliased module is, by the way, an excellent way of avoiding these problems: `use aliased 'Math::BigInt'; my $seven = BigInt->new(7); # no ambiguity` [download] `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^6: How to import names from a dynamically required module
by tobyink (Canon) on Oct 03, 2012 at 09:11 UTC

The odds are small, yes. In my decade plus of Perl usage I've encountered bugs because of this two, perhaps three, times. But each time it took me bloody ages to figure out, which is why I have been trying to avoid this ambiguity in recent work.

The aliased module is, by the way, an excellent way of avoiding these problems:

use aliased 'Math::BigInt';

my $seven = BigInt->new(7);  # no ambiguity
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perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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[d/l]

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