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

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, Jesse Luehrs wrote:

> 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:
>
>


Or maintaining significantly more forks of various modules and ideas.

-Chris