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From:
Craig A. Berry
Date:
February 28, 2013 17:49
Subject:
Re: File::Spec in XS
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CA+vYcVzE47-Y1Q4Ny5dKmqQbJbhouKueUuDf6WRpYu=S+-T4jQ@mail.gmail.com
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:
> Steffen Mueller wrote:

>
>>I wonder whether it has any impact on portability?
>
> Shouldn't.  Quite a lot of the complexity comes from making sure not
> to break the File::Spec::Unix methods in their role as methods that are
> inherited by File::Spec::$notunix; they have to play nicely in composition
> with other methods.

So the code paths where invocant_is_unix() is false are still
File::Spec::Unix but only via inheritance?

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