in reply to Re^6: Where is the @ISA array?
in thread Where is the @ISA array?

Because Schwern (who added all those misfeatures) threw his hands up in despair and declared it unfixable. Hence, the fixed version was released under a new name, parent.pm.

And it's not a problem when things work, but once things fail, they fail ways that are hard to debug because whether a subclass gets loaded depends on program flow in a nonobvious way.

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Re^8: Where is the @ISA array?
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 22, 2009 at 13:55 UTC
    I guess I just know how to use base then. *shrug* You guys are really doing a great job of tearing Perl up, module by module.