perl-Exporter-Lite

Lightweight exporting of functions and variables

Exporter::Lite is an alternative to Exporter, intended to provide a lightweight subset of the most commonly-used functionality. It supports 'import()', '@EXPORT' and '@EXPORT_OK' and not a whole lot else. Exporter::Lite simply exports its import() function into your namespace. This might be called a "mix-in" or a "role". When 'Exporter::Lite' was written, if you wanted to use 'Exporter' you had to write something like this: use Exporter; our @ISA = qw/ Exporter /; 'Exporter::Lite' saved you from writing that second line. But since before 2010 you've been able to write: use Exporter qw/ import /; Which imports the 'import' function into your namespace from 'Exporter'. As a result, I would recommend that you use 'Exporter' now, as it's a core module (shipped with Perl). To make sure you get a version of 'Exporter' that supports the above usage, specify a minimum version when you 'use' it: use Exporter 5.57 qw/ import /;