664, 668 - Getopt::Long

[Ovid]

--- David Golden <xdaveg at gmail.com> wrote:

> $ prove -MSome::Plugin -MSome::Other::Plugin -D archive_file=foo.txt
> -D color=yes

Aside from my earlier comments where I agreed with this explicitness
but also agree with Eric's dislike of the verbosity, here's a
compromise.

Back when I was a committer on Catalyst, I ran into the following
problem:

  use Catalyst qw/
                 Session
                 Session::Store::FastMmap
                 Session::State::Cookie
                 /;

Those were all plugins named things like 'Catalyst::Plugin::Session'
and things like that.  The problem is that the shortcut makes it
difficult to deal with different package names, so one thing I
committed allowed this:

  use Catalyst qw/
                 Session
                 Session::Store::FastMmap
                 Session::State::Cookie
                 +Fully::Qualified::Plugin::Foo
                 /;

The "Fully::Qualified::Plugin::Foo" didn't have "Catalyst::Plugin::"
prepended.  Surely we can find a similar compromise?

Cheers,
Ovid

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