Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@wiw.org> wrote > How about this, then? What's the point of that? I think you are failing to understand the comment. The "historical accident that should be fixed sometime" is that there is an import in the UNIVERSAL:: namespace *at all*. Having extra things in that namespace is Very Bad since they are inherited *everywhere*. It used to be much worse - see http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/1997-06/msg00997.html But as Graham has pointed out, we can't withdraw it without going through a deprecation cycle first. And mending perlobj.pod. :-( Mike GuyThread Previous | Thread Next