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from - load a module and import selected items from it
use from <Test &plan &ok>; # only import "plan" and "ok" plan 1; ok "foo", "bar"; # ok 1 - bar use from "Foo"; # use Foo, but don't import anything use from <Test ! &skip>; # import everything *except* skip
from is a helper module that allows you to load any given module and only import selected items from whatever that module imports. This can be helpful when there is a conflict between different modules exporting something with the same name (such as skip
in the Raku core, and the skip
subroutine provided by Test
.
The first argument indicates the name of the module to be loaded. If it is the only argument, then the module will be loaded without doing any of its imports (which is basically the same as need
).
If the second argument is a sole exclamation mark, it indicates that the rest of the arguments are items that should not be imported.
The rest of the arguments indicate the items that should (not) be imported.
Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]
Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/from . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.
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Copyright 2022 Elizabeth Mattijsen
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.