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From:
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Date:
April 29, 2007 16:57
Subject:
Re: use parent 'Some::Class' @import_list;
Message ID:
51dd1af80704291657i473a0e20y31637e4a0ce0081e@mail.gmail.com
On 4/29/07, Ovid <publiustemp-p5p3@yahoo.com> wrote:

So:

use parent qw( a b );

would be exactly equivalent to:

use base qw( a );
BEGIN { a->import('b') }

?

FWIW `parent' as opposed to `base' doesn't make me think "ah, this'll
call import too" as much as it makes me wonder what (if any) is the
difference between a base and a parent package.

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