in reply to Re^5: (How) Do you document/test your private subroutines?
in thread (How) Do you document/test your private subroutines?

> you might accidentally define _frobnicate in the child class ... and kaboom!

for completeness, we might not get a "Subroutine _frobnicate redefined at" warning but it is possible to dynamically inspect a parent class with ->can from UNIVERSAL

So it's not that the "sub-class"-developer is completely in the dark.

It should even be possible to check this automatically.

(which is the saner approach since people don't tend to read the docs after a parent class got extended)

Cheers Rolf
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