[Chicago-talk] Problem with Exporter as reported by CPAN testers on one of my modules.

[Elliot Shank]

I just got a FAIL email on one of my modules that I'm not understanding.

Specifically, it's getting a compilation error:

  "import" is not exported by the Exporter module

the line in question is

  use Exporter qw( import );

What the ?!?.

The person is using 5.6.2 on some version of Debian.  I do development using 5.8.8.

Is there any general reason why this should fail?  Yes, I will obviously check specifically with the person, but I'm asking in the general case.

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