On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:20:49AM -0000, Michael.Jacob@SCHERING.DE (via RT) wrote: > The POD of UNIVERSAL has this line as example: > > use UNIVERSAL qw( isa can VERSION ); > > This should be either removed or there should be a remark like this: > > DANGER! "use"ing UNIVERSAL WILL break many CPAN modules. Do not do > this, use "*isa = \&UNIVERSAL::isa;" instead or expect hard to trace > error pop up... > > example: > > $ perl > use IPC::Run; > > use Net::SFTP; > "SSH2" is not exported by the Net::SSH::Perl::Buffer module Thanks for your report. I've hopped into my time machine and patched UNIVERSAL.pm to avoid this problem. :) http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-10/msg00188.html -- Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ gigaconway: a hypothetical unit of mind expansion, so disturbing it is likely to change the fundemental nature of the universe. Some contend that gigaconway events, while rare, are much cheaper to produce than antiprotons, nuclear weapons or even XML specifications, and start at US$60,000 each. If you believe gigaconway events are indeed possible, please send your tax deductable contributions to: The Conway Fund, c/o Yet Another Society http://www.yetanother.org/ -- ZiggyThread Previous