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Bogus argument (Score:1)

by Corion (7288)

Yes, C should be using A but I've read a lot of commercial code that just assumes other modules are loaded and its a horrible thing to debug.

What a bogus argument. I would accept this if you had said "I have written a lot of commercial code that just assumes ...", but arguing a (unremovable, by now) misfeature of your code as something actually beneficial is quite a stretch. I hadn't looked at the source code of base.pm before people argued against it, but for my taste it is far too close to the code of
- Re:Bogus argument (Score:2)
  
  by schwern (1528) on 2007.08.01 17:02 (#56664) Homepage Journal
  
  I think we're having a violent agreement. My example about the commercial code was illustrating the importance of inheriting at compile time vs setting @ISA at run time. All the other details of "use base" are orthogonal.
  
  Some people remember to put a BEGIN around setting @ISA (and @EXPORT) but most don't either because they forget or aren't aware.
  
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