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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(….)
> 
> 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




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