On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Linda W <perl-didd...@tlinx.org> wrote:
>     I did, and now that advice to implement the pragma on CPAN first is
> forgotten and
> I'm being asked to hide the pragma under a module name when it isn't a
> module nor does
> it function like one.
>
>     Hopefully you won't see this response as a personal attack nor impolite.

I don't.  Thank you for your more considered response.

My opinion is that "pragma" isn't anything different than a module.
It's a .pm file.  It gets loaded and runs an "import" method.  Whether
it affects the hints variable or other things is sort of irrelevant.

There are lower-case modules on CPAN already.  Plenty of them.
Nothing stops you from uploading under such a name or stops people
from using it.  (E.g. "common::sense")

The only issue is whether it should be *registered*, which is an
entirely optional thing anyway.

Personally, I think that module registration is an outdated concept
that we should eliminate, but I don't get to make those decisions and
there are still PAUSE admins who blessedly volunteer time pondering
such requests.

David



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