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On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:35:32PM -0700, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote:
> On Fri Jun 22 12:14:55 2012, doy wrote:
> > I've pushed a fix for this to the doy/universal branch. It's pretty
> > straightforward, but some of the tests in t/op/universal.t were testing
> > for this behavior explicitly (checking that can() was false before a
> > package existed and true afterwards), so I'm not sure if this is
> > reasonable to just change directly. I am in favor of making this change
> > though, so any input is welcome.
>
> I think $class->can('can') is a fairly popular way to see whether a
> class is loaded.
But (as mst pointed out on #p5p) it doesn't do that at all:
$ perl -E'package Foo::Bar; say Foo->can("can")'
CODE(0x1f4a220)
(since namespaces nest). And having $foo->can("can") not die and yet not
return anything really seems nonsensical. This feels analogous to the
defined(@array) issue, to me - people may be using it, but it really
doesn't do what they think it does, and using it in this way can cause a
lot of subtle bugs.
-doy
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