Re: Replacing "use base" with "use parent"

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:47:52PM -0700, Karen Etheridge wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 11:14:02AM -0500, Jesse Luehrs wrote:
> > parent is dual-life, so it wouldn't be a case of dropping support, it
> > would just be an extra dependency for 5.8. That said, an extra
> > dependency for no actual reason does seem a bit questionable (which is
> > why I was asking for the reasoning).
> 
> Have you looked at the base.pm code? It needs to die as quick a death as we
> can bring it.

If "ugly code" was a reason to avoid using a module, I would be
significantly less productive in perl d:

-doy