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Perl or Java? (Score:2)
On the other hand, it's Java all over again. Every time I look at a Java program, I see statements like import java.io.* and the like. A few lines later, I see references to classes I've never seen before from one package or another, and I don't know where to go when I'm looking up methods on some interface like XMLReader or some class like HashMap. Because the package prefixes are stripped, I've lost all co
Re:Perl or Java? (Score:2)
This is somewhat different from the Java model (I had considered implementing that but I abandoned the idea as causing more problems than it solved [perlmonks.org]). Java is frustrating because, as you point out, you can silently bring in tons of namespaces and not know their origin. However, class.pm does this one module at a time. You can always glance at the code at the top of the package to see where the package comes from.
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