Bleargh!

Don't get the impression that Pugs is a pile of mud because of this "feature"

To do it right, we'd need to support lexical import, which is a new feature in Perl 6

A deliberate makeshift that let us act as users of Perl would before we had that much of perl available

Good enough in many cases

for example, writing 8,000 tests for other things!

But the fact that it don't work don't mean it don't need no fixing

The way import works in Perl 6 is actually much more clever than Perl 5; you can say `{ use MyMod }` and not see the the effect of the use outside the braces. This is known as lexical import (or export -- depending on whose perspective you take).