Re: Private and Protected class methods

I suspect (but can't prove at this hour) that your can() call suffers from the false cognate problem.

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Re^2: Private and Protected class methods by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Sep 07, 2006 at 06:02 UTC
false cognate problem for those like me that haven't encountered the phrase, Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error. Lingua non convalesco, consenesco et abolesco. -- Rule 1 has a caveat! -- Who broke the cabal? "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority". In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Private and Protected class methods by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 07, 2006 at 06:37 UTC
It does. Suppose that package A has a method called foo() and package B has a protected method called foo(). Suppose further that $b is an object of class B. Then in package A if we call $b->foo(), the call will succeed because in B we check to see if A->can("foo") and find that it can. Even though the two foos have nothing to do with each other.	[reply]