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My only guess is that... (Score:1)

by btilly (5037)

Somewhere, somehow, something is doing $object->foo::bar(@stuff) and you're needing to catch these calls in package foo and tell it that no, you really wanted to make those method calls on $object, not on package foo.

That situation would avoid all recursion problems with that code and is documented in the core. But I would need to know more about your code to guess why it might do something silly like call the method foo::bar.

However I suspect that you have lots of things that you want dispatched to pac
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  by ChrisDolan (2855)
  
  Or, the code is "print($object, ...)" (replace "print" with any other core or imported symbol) and Ovid wants the $object to control the behavior. The alternative is a solution like UNIVERSAL::isa.

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