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

[Elliot Shank]

Ok.  Forget that.  Exporter didn't support this until the version in 5.8.3.  *sigh*.

Elliot Shank wrote:
> 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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