Re: IT DOESN'T WORK Re: [PATCH English.pm] Removing the regex nastiness (finally)

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 03:10:39PM -0500, Chris Nandor wrote:
> How about requiring calling the evil ones explicitly?  Have a custom
> import() sub that requires a separate file that would contain those
> aliases.  That should do it, right?
> 
> And if someone tries to use $MATCH after use English, it could still be
> tied, and it could return undef and warn that $MATCH must be explicitly
> exported.

Nahh.  Too much backwards compatibility hair for a relatively minor issue.

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References to:

Hugo <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>
Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>
Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>

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