in reply to Re^2: OO systems and Perl 5 (Was: Recap: Future of Perl 5)
in thread OO systems and Perl 5 (Was: Recap: Future of Perl 5)

Unfortunately ammending UNIVERSAL will certainly break some CPAN modules.

Just imagine packages trying to catch new in AUTOLOAD.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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Re^4: OO systems and Perl 5 (Was: Recap: Future of Perl 5)
by RonW (Parson) on Aug 31, 2018 at 00:07 UTC

    Unfortunately, true.