I often need to put quoted word lists (qw/ one two three /) in array refs,
and plenty of other people do too.
It almost always looks messy —
it would be neat if we had syntax for that.
A DWIM'ish solution would be qw[ one two three ], but that boat has sailed.
In looking at exporter modules, I've also done a bit of thinking about private functions. A comment from DAGOLDEN on my function exporter post prompted me to try and enumerate the different ways you can do private functions in Perl 5.
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