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From:
Dave Rolsky via RT
Date:
October 17, 2016 15:28
Subject:
Message ID:
rt-4.0.24-5291-1476718107-815.116945-15-0@perl.org
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.
Removing this was an oversight on my part when I rewrote the docs. I agree 100% that this should be documented. I'd be happy to review a patch.
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via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open
https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116945