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to prevent imported functions from being accidentally called as methods by a class's user

I would have thought the automatic provision of the object handle as the first parameter would elicit sufficient errors to make tracking down the error/typo reasonably easy.

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Re^6: RFC: pragma pragmatic
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Aug 11, 2017 at 00:33 UTC

    Yeah, it always felt like more of a theoretical problem than a widespread one, given the pervasiveness of the function/method conflation in Perl. Perl's just not built for that kind of safety.

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