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On Sat Jan 24 13:32:57 2009, ben@morrow.me.uk wrote: > > Quoth Peter@PSDT.com (Peter Scott): > > I don't see why it wouldn't be an improvement to resolve in the other > > priority order; i.e., if A::B::C is defined, call that, else call A::B. > > I don't think that's possible, firstly because you don't necessarily > know which methods a class defines (consider AUTOLOAD), and secondly > because the choice between A::B()->C and "A::B"->C is made at compile > time, possibly before A/B.pm (or whatever bit of code it is defines sub > A::B::C) has even been loaded. > > > aliased.pm would still work > > ...provided you don't define any methods in the package you are aliasing > into. The big advantage of aliased (indeed, the only thing that makes it > remotely sane) is that its effect is package scoped, so any code > compiled into the package you imported the alias into will use the > alias, and any other code will completely ignore it. I think that is sufficient reason to reject this ticket. This could never work as proposed, and would break existing code. -- Father Chrysostomos --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=62584