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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:11 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 06:56:12PM +0200, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> While trying to build Pod::Abstract 0.19 >> http://search.cpan.org/~blilburne/Pod-Abstract-0.19/ >> on perl 5.11.3 I got the following warning: >> >> UNIVERSAL->import is deprecated and will be removed in a future perl >> at ..../perl/lib/site_perl/5.11.3/Pod/Abstract/Path.pm line 7 >> >> The module installs but then another module fails its test as it >> checks it STDERR and now it >> has unexpected output on it. >> >> Do I understand correctly that best course of action is to notify the >> author of Pod::Abstract ask him to stop importing the >> functions from UNIVERSAL ? > > Yes. It would be very useful if you could do this. I'm not sure what > the exact fix needs to be in this case. It seems that use UNIVERSAL; generates the same warning so I had to write use UNIVERSAL (); and then replace the calls to isa() and can() by UNIVERSAL::isa() and UNIVERSAL::can() Would that be the recommended way of using them? GaborThread Previous | Thread Next