G'day haj,

++ Thanks for looking into the points I raised and providing feedback.

There wasn't anything that was actually "scary", at least for me. I usually try out experimental features privately when they first appear; I won't use them in production (personal, $work, or even PM code) until the experimental status is lifted. I wasn't too surprised with "very incomplete": I took class to be the first step in a staged implementation, wholly or partly, of Corinna.

What you wrote about parent presumably also applies to base and any code that manipulates @ISA (either directly or via a module).

That's an interesting point about package and class names. I had wondered about that but didn't list it with things I was interested in testing. Forbidding duplicate names seems appropriate; although, presumably something like this would be valid (even if it is poor design): 

class X;
...
package Y;
...
class X;
... extend the class here ...

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— Ken

In reply to Re^3: Thoughts on new 'class' OO in upcoming perl by kcott
in thread Thoughts on new 'class' OO in upcoming perl by cavac

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