On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> > > similar test works fine for me:
> > > package My;
> > > use base qw(Cwd Socket Fcntl);
> > > sub new { bless {} }
> >
> > This was a perl 5.6.0 bug in base.pm.
>
> Actually, for what its worth this was a bug in the caching done for
> checking ->isa. The bug exists in at least 5.00503 and 5.6.0 and maybe
> earlier Perls. In 5.00503 base.pm did not use ->isa so it didn't trigger
> the bug. In 5.6.0 base.pm did use ->isa. This is all fixed in 5.6.1.
That, and use base is unusable in 5.5, because it doesn't require() the
module. But this is way off topic now :-)
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