It seems your usage of L depends on a "feature" that was deprecated over 20 years ago: It's setting up an AUTOLOAD function in the UNIVERSAL package, so that function calls such as Data::Dump::pp are sent to AUTOLOAD.

The module's tests only test a method call, and its synopsis only shows a method call. In fact, the breakage of the module was reported in #131571, and in the module's repository as #2. If I interpret the fix correctly, I think the module was never intended to work for regular function calls.

At the moment, I don't have any good ideas for a replacement. It's still possible to call Data::Dump->pp(), but that will pass the package as the first argument:

$ perl -wMstrict -ML -e 'Data::Dump->pp("x")'
("Data::Dump", "x")

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Note that using -M actually doesn't necessarily make the one-liners longer:

$ perl -wMstrict -ML -e 'Data::Dump::pp("x")'
$ perl -wMstrict -MData::Dump=pp -e 'pp("x")'

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In reply to Re: Perl 28 broke L: How to fix? by haukex
in thread Perl 28 broke L: How to fix? by Anonymous Monk

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