in reply to Re: Do not use UNIVERSAL::isa this way; but why?
in thread Do not use UNIVERSAL::isa this way; but why?

Just that you should be really sure that that's what you want to do.

And when would it be what you want to do? No, ->isa is always the way to go. Feel free to wrap it in an eval if you need.

my $isa = eval { $questionable->isa($class) };