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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:32:11PM +0200, ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason wrote:
> I've just pushed a smoke-me branch to remote UNIVERSAL::import from
> that package, and make its (no)?import a fatal error via a hack to
> gv.c: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/8804321d
>
> The motivation here is that someone doing "use UNIVERSAL;" in some
> module shouldn't make $pkg->can("import") true for any value of $pkg
> in your program.
>
> But technically this does break backwards compatibility without a
> deprecation cycle. Because "use UNIVERSAL;" isn't an error today, and
> some code on the CPAN redundantly uses that.
You'll also break this:
use UNIVERSAL;
...
if(UNIVERSAL::isa($foo, 'Some::Class')) { ...
which is a lot more convenient than checking to see if $foo is blessed,
and if it is calling $foo->isa().
That said, it's not a particularly common idiom and I'm happy to change
it in my code.
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