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I agree (Score:1)

by perrin (4270) on 2008.04.15 7:54 (#62215) Journal

Every time I complain about UNIVERSAL, people tell me not to worry about it because collisions will never happen.

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  by rjbs (4671)
  
  I used to be a big fan of UNIVERSAL::moniker. Now I think, "Why couldn't I just say Data::Moniker->for($thing) and it would call ->moniker if blah blah blah." Data::Moniker could export a class-bound version of the method, etc.
  
  People complain a lot about monkeypatching Object in other languages, but I feel like you're right: a lot of people who see the evil of that seem to let UNIVERSAL methods go.
  
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  rjbs

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