Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter

On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:05:10AM +0100, Graham Barr wrote:
> There should not be an import{} method at all.

Cat's out of the bag on this on, I think.  Quoth perlobj:

     `isa' is also exportable and can be called as a sub with two argu-
     ments. This allows the ability to check what a reference points to.
     Example

	 use UNIVERSAL qw(isa);

	 if(isa($ref, 'ARRAY')) {
	     #...
	 }

It can be handy to be able to call isa() and can() without worrying if
the "object" is blessed.  Why shouldn't isa() be imported, anyway?

- Barrie

• [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Abhijit Menon-Sen
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Mike Guy
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Simon Cozens
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Graham Barr
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Mike Guy
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Jarkko Hietaniemi
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Mike Guy
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• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Benjamin Sugars
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Graham Barr
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by barries
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Abhijit Menon-Sen
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Graham Barr
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Simon Cozens
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Graham Barr
• Re: [PATCH] UNIVERSAL shouldn't require Exporter by Graham Barr