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Re: The Time::Piece conspiracy unmasked!!!

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
April 26, 2001 11:06
Subject:
Re: The Time::Piece conspiracy unmasked!!!
Message ID:
20010426130622.L9141@chaos.wustl.edu
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:02:50PM +0100, Mike Guy wrote:
> The story they couldn't suppress!
> 
> You probably that Jarkko's inclusion of Time::Piece was to provide useful
> time functions.    But really it's a cunning Trojan horse; it's true
> purpose is to sneak an import method into everyone's classes.
> 
> Bwaahahaha!

Move on people, ther's nothing for you to see.  <whispering into his
mobile phone>Yes, send in a Cleaner.  Yes, it's that bad.  Yes,
Cambridge, UK.  

> 
> Mike Guy
> 
> --- ./ext/Time/Piece/Piece.pm.orig	Mon Apr 23 06:38:02 2001
> +++ ./ext/Time/Piece/Piece.pm	Thu Apr 26 14:47:21 2001
> @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@
>  require DynaLoader;
>  use Time::Seconds;
>  use Carp;
> -use UNIVERSAL;
>  
>  @ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);
>  
> 
> End of patch

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