On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Petri Häkkinen <petrih3@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7.8.2010, at 6.10, Mark Hamburg <mark@grubmah.com> wrote:
This hardly seems particularly bizarre and it doesn't rely on tricks with
environment to change global assignments into exported values.
Indeed. Honestly this should become the recommended practice or the new
'policy', if you will. It's as explicit and simple as it gets.
Yes, much easier to explain to a newcomer. _We_ may get module() but
it's a subtle sideways beast, with pitfalls as pointed out by David M.
(We also tend to forget our initial puzzlement with module())
Also, it is invariant with respect to the 5.1 -> 5.2 transformation ;)