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  • I wish you had given this normal capitalization and not called it a pragma. Pragmas by definition are shipped with core perl. This may be a useful module, but calling it a pragma only muddies the waters.

    • It hadn't occured to me yet and, in fact, I had to look for a pretty long time before I found the term "default module" in perlglossary for pragma. I think you mean that sentence. That was a fault on my part, so sorry for that.

      But there seems to be oil all over the ocean already: autorequire [cpan.org], version [cpan.org] (will be ok then in 5.9 I guess), fake [cpan.org], all [cpan.org],

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      • I don't mean to single you out. You're certainly not the only one to do it. I think it's better to stick with the standard though, and avoid calling CPAN modules pragmas or naming them all lowercase.

        • No worries, I'm not feeling singled out :) Though in my opinion it would have been more confusing to name it Namespace::Clean and affect the local package the way it does. I, and I had the impression that many others too, understand the term 'pragma' more as 'altering behaviour or environment' vs. the 'providing code' situation of library modules.

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          Ordinary morality is for ordinary people. -- Aleister Crowley
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