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

On Oct 10, 2012, at 8:41 AM, Olivier Mengué wrote:
> 2012/10/9 Jesse Luehrs <[email protected]>
> 
> I'm not sure I see the benefit here, at least as long as we're still
>> supporting 5.8.
> 
> 
> Beside my original extract of the POD of each modules, just have a look to
> base.pm code vs parent.pm.
> 
> Also parent.pm is dual-life, so 5.8 compat is not an issue, except for the
> additional dependency.
> And parent.pm has already more than 500 CPAN distributions directly
> depending on it (according to MetaCPAN reverse dependency results), so many
> CPAN users still using perl 5.8 already have it.
> 
> 
>> Is there a particular reason you're interested in this
>> change?
> 
> 
> I've started my quest to kill 'use base' and 'use base "Exporter"' a few
> years ago and have helped to get 'parent' spread.
> (I've ongoing work to fix Perl::Critic and add a Perl::Critic policy: my
> first step is to get rid of base.pm in Perl::Critic itself, but this takes
> time : 5 months in RT#75300)
> 
> But as long as high profile modules such as Moose still use 'base' instead
> of 'parent', 'base' will never die. People think « if Moose uses it, it's
> fine to use it in my code », and 'parent' keeps being unnoticed. So keeping
> 'use base' in Moose helps to keep 'base' alive.
> 
> Finally, if using Moose is modern Perl, Moose should use 'parent' and show
> the light to its users.


I don't think this last sentence can be argued with, my vote it to merge it.

- Stevan