On Monday 26 February 2007 21:20, Michael G Schwern wrote: > Case in point... my tests started suddenly warning about "UNIVERSAL::isa > called as a function in Class::DBI". After spending a bunch of time trying > to figure out what the hell was going on and if Redhat introduced some new > warning or something I finally discover that Test::MockObject uses > UNIVERSAL::isa() which warns if *anyone* calls UNIVERSAL::isa() as a > function. Its nagging *me*, the unrelated 3rd party, about problems in > someone else's code that I don't have control over!
No, it's warning you that if Test::MockObject doesn't work, that it's not *my* problem. It's also telling you exactly *where* that problem is. As much as I'd like to fix the real problem (the belief that enforcing structural subtyping makes any sense), the best I can do is try to work around the damage while not sweeping it under the rug. I can't see how ignoring the problem gets it fixed. -- c
