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On Aug 8, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Father Chrysostomos wrote:
> If PL_sub_generation does not invalidate isa caches, would it be appropriate to add a new PL_isa_generation variable?
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>> It's not common, and I don't see an absolute need to calculate the
>> strict set of packages affected, and call mro_changed_in() for just them.
>
> And I now realise that such would be very inefficient anyway, as nested classes have nothing to do with inheritance. (*p:: = *PPI:: would have to iterate through 94 packages, recalculating the linear isa cache, etc. *p:: = delete $::{"PPI"} would do that iteration twice.)
I think we will have to live with this inefficiency. Anyway, most of the time I alias packages, it’s just for a few. The most common example in my code is ‘use DDS’ which loads DDS.pm, which aliases DDS:: to Data'Dump'Streamer::.
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