From: Nikolai Weibull <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-01-21T06:16:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Fighting Ruby's bad fame

* Austin Ziegler <austin@halostatue.ca> [Jan, 20 2004 21:50]:
> > Compared to Perl or Python, include is missing the ability of
> > Perl's use or Python's import command to just bring only certain
> > parts of the module into the current namespace. In perl, you can
> > do:
> >   use Module (:func1 :func2);
> > and in python:
> >   from Module import :func1, :func2

> I personally see no reason for this. I've *never* used this
> so-called "feature" in Perl, and I don't see the point of it,
> either.

i have to agree, use of this 'feature', i feel, is a sign of bad design.
If there is a need to be selective, then the module should surely be
split up, right?  A module should constitute some logically related
methods or some such that should be treated as a single unit, namely a
module.
	nikolai

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