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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l .nh .SH "NAME" UNIVERSAL::isa \- Attempt to recover from people calling UNIVERSAL::isa as a function .SH "VERSION" .IX Header "VERSION" version 1.20140927 .SH "SYNOPSIS" .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" .Vb 2 \& # from the shell \& echo \*(Aqexport PERL5OPT=\-MUNIVERSAL::isa\*(Aq >> /etc/profile \& \& # within your program \& use UNIVERSAL::isa; \& \& # enable warnings for all dodgy uses of UNIVERSAL::isa \& use UNIVERSAL::isa \*(Aqverbose\*(Aq; .Ve .SH "DESCRIPTION" .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" Whenever you use \*(L"isa\*(R" in \s-1UNIVERSAL\s0 as a function, a kitten using Test::MockObject dies. Normally, the kittens would be helpless, but if they use UNIVERSAL::isa (the module whose docs you are reading), the kittens can live long and prosper. .PP This module replaces \f(CW\*(C`UNIVERSAL::isa\*(C'\fR with a version that makes sure that, when called as a function on objects which override \f(CW\*(C`isa\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`isa\*(C'\fR will call the appropriate method on those objects .PP In all other cases, the real \f(CW\*(C`UNIVERSAL::isa\*(C'\fR gets called directly. .PP \&\fB\s-1NOTE:\s0\fR You should use this module only for debugging purposes. It does not belong as a dependency in running code. .SH "WARNINGS" .IX Header "WARNINGS" If the lexical warnings pragma is available, this module will emit a warning for each naughty invocation of \f(CW\*(C`UNIVERSAL::isa\*(C'\fR. Silence these warnings by saying: .PP .Vb 1 \& no warnings \*(AqUNIVERSAL::isa\*(Aq; .Ve .PP in the lexical scope of the naughty code. .PP After version 1.00, warnings only appear when naughty code calls \&\fIUNIVERSAL::isa()\fR as a function on an invocant for which there is an overridden \&\fIisa()\fR. These are really truly \fIactive\fR bugs, and you should fix them rather than relying on this module to find them. .PP To get warnings for all potentially dangerous uses of \fIUNIVERSAL::isa()\fR as a function, not a method (that is, for \fIall\fR uses of the method as a function, which are latent bugs, if not bugs that will break your code as it exists now), pass the \f(CW\*(C`verbose\*(C'\fR flag when using the module. This can generate many extra warnings, but they're more specific as to the actual wrong practice and they usually suggest proper fixes. .SH "SEE ALSO" .IX Header "SEE ALSO" Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitUniversalIsa .PP UNIVERSAL::can for another discussion of the problem at hand. .PP Test::MockObject for one example of a module that really needs to override \&\f(CW\*(C`isa()\*(C'\fR. .PP Any decent explanation of \s-1OO\s0 to understand why calling methods as functions is a staggeringly bad idea. .SH "AUTHORS" .IX Header "AUTHORS" .IP "\(bu" 4 Audrey Tang .IP "\(bu" 4 chromatic .IP "\(bu" 4 \&\s-1XXXX XXX\s0'\s-1XX \s0(Yuval Kogman) .SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE" .IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE" This software is copyright (c) 2011 by chromatic@wgz.org. .PP This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. .SH "CONTRIBUTORS" .IX Header "CONTRIBUTORS" .IP "\(bu" 4 Karen Etheridge .IP "\(bu" 4 Ricardo Signes