Re: [perl #24259] POD of UNIVERSAL is dangerous

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


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• [perl #24259] POD of UNIVERSAL is dangerous by perlbug-followup
• Re: [perl #24259] POD of UNIVERSAL is dangerous by Michael G Schwern