NAME¶
UNIVERSAL::isa - Attempt to recover from people calling UNIVERSAL::isa as a
function
VERSION¶
version 1.20140927
SYNOPSIS¶
# from the shell
echo 'export PERL5OPT=-MUNIVERSAL::isa' >> /etc/profile
# within your program
use UNIVERSAL::isa;
# enable warnings for all dodgy uses of UNIVERSAL::isa
use UNIVERSAL::isa 'verbose';
DESCRIPTION¶
Whenever you use "isa" in UNIVERSAL 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.
This module replaces "UNIVERSAL::isa" with a version that makes sure
that, when called as a function on objects which override "isa",
"isa" will call the appropriate method on those objects
In all other cases, the real "UNIVERSAL::isa" gets called directly.
NOTE: You should use this module only for debugging purposes. It does not
belong as a dependency in running code.
WARNINGS¶
If the lexical warnings pragma is available, this module will emit a warning for
each naughty invocation of "UNIVERSAL::isa". Silence these warnings
by saying:
no warnings 'UNIVERSAL::isa';
in the lexical scope of the naughty code.
After version 1.00, warnings only appear when naughty code calls
UNIVERSAL::isa() as a function on an invocant for which there is an
overridden
isa(). These are really truly
active bugs, and you
should fix them rather than relying on this module to find them.
To get warnings for all potentially dangerous uses of
UNIVERSAL::isa() as
a function, not a method (that is, for
all 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 "verbose" 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.
SEE ALSO¶
Perl::Critic::Policy::BuiltinFunctions::ProhibitUniversalIsa
UNIVERSAL::can for another discussion of the problem at hand.
Test::MockObject for one example of a module that really needs to override
"isa()".
Any decent explanation of OO to understand why calling methods as functions is a
staggeringly bad idea.
AUTHORS¶
- •
- Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>
- •
- chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org>
- •
- XXXX XXX'XX (Yuval Kogman) <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by chromatic@wgz.org.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
CONTRIBUTORS¶
- •
- Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org>
- •
- Ricardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>