On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 21:45 -0400, Sartak wrote: Yes. Unfortunately it's way too late to break back-compat. :( > > It's documented somewhere in the dist that the empty method is > deprecated because of exactly this.
Ahh, I was wondering if this was the case. > Also, I'm unfamiliar with the ': method' business after the subroutine > > name, can someone explain? > > That's to tell Perl to not generate the warning "Ambiguous call > resolved as CORE::foo". perldoc attributes has more information. Thanks for the pointer. Tod -- Tod Hagan Information Technologist AIRMAP/Climate Change Research Center Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 Phone: 603-862-3116
