On Tue Feb 26 05:47:17 2013, jules@jellybean.co.uk wrote: > Hi, > > The documentation for the particular form of method invocation where > you specify a package name to begin the dispatch at: > > $obj->foo::bar(â¦.) > > was present in perlobj(1) up until 5.14 ( see > https://github.com/mirrors/perl/blob/maint-5.14/pod/perlobj.pod ) > with an example > > $barney->Critter::display("Height", "Weight"); > > It seems that perlobj got rewritten in 5.16 branch and this part of > the file has changed, completely removing all mention of that > feature. I think it deserves a mention not least because there are > modules on CPAN which use this style as their api. Ideally the > paragraph would also mention that you can start dispatch at an > arbitrary package not necessarily in the MRO of the object. > > Thanks, > > Jules > > PS Nicholas told me to mention soup. > Let's see if we can find out something from the committer: commit af36000c88ef5604a340513b05466c8690459612 Author: Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org> Date: Thu Jul 7 11:35:00 2011 -0500 --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: new https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=116945Thread Next