On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 06:04:32PM +0200, Olivier Mengué wrote: > I'm Warnocked about my Moose patch. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma > > 2012/9/21 Olivier Mengué <olivier.men...@gmail.com> > > > Hi, > > > > From the base.pm > > documentation<http://perldoc.perl.org/base.html#DESCRIPTION>: > > > > > > Unless you are using the fields pragma, consider this module discouraged > > in favor of the lighter-weight parent . > > > > From the parent.pm > > documentation<http://perldoc.perl.org/parent.html#HISTORY> > > : > > > > This module was forked from base to remove the cruft that had accumulated > > in it. > > > > parent.pm is a 30 lines pure Perl dual module available also in core > > since 5.10.1. > > > > > > So I've done the work to replace all "use base" with either "use parent" > > or "use parent -norequire => ". Most changes are in lib/Class/ and t/. > > The code is here: > > https://github.com/dolmen/p5-Moose/commits/topic/base-to-parent > > (branch topic/base-to-parent at git://github.com/dolmen/p5-Moose.git) > > > > I've yet not touched the 'benchmark' directory to avoid breaking reference > > values. Tell me if I should go further...
I'm not sure I see the benefit here, at least as long as we're still supporting 5.8. Is there a particular reason you're interested in this change? -doy
