Daisuke Maki <daisuke(_at_)wafu(_dot_)ne(_dot_)jp> writes:
What's wrong with
use Encode ();
?
I do realize it's a style issue. I don't feel particularly strongly
about this, but it just seems odd that a core module would do this.
I am afraid it is legacy from its brief life as a sub-module of Tk.
Not exporting anything by default, or just find_encoding would be
fine by me as I tend to use it thus:
my $enc = find_encoding(...);
my $now = $enc->encode(...);
I find the "in-place" from_to() API clumsy and even the order of the args
odd. I would like to have been able to write
if ($now = from_to(iso8859_1 => utf8 => $string))
But of course it has to be
if (from_to(my $now = $string, iso8859_1 => 'utf8')
Anyway, my point is that I just shudder at the thought of modules
polluting my namespace by default in general. But I guess if you're
going to take the "What's wrong with use Encode()" atitude ( which is
fine, just not my style ), I guess there isn't much to go on for me. ;)
que sera sera
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Nick Ing-Simmons
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