Re: Pre-RFC - "use warnings" by default for all non-one-liners

[Michael G Schwern]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 04:15:24PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
>     my Dog $spot;
>     print defined($spot) ? 'defined' : 'undefined'; # undefined
>     print $spot->isa('Dog') ? 'Dog' : 'not dog';    # Dog;

That sounds unrelated to this conversation, but I think isa() should
continue to represent the class of the object, not the type.

Consider:

    my Dog $spot = Cat->new;
    print $spot->isa('Dog') ? 'Dog' : 'not dog';

Currently, $spot is not a dog.  It should probably remain that way.

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