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

2012/9/21 Olivier Mengué <[email protected]>

> Hi,
>
> From the base.pm documentation<http://perldoc.perl.org/base.html#DESCRIPTION>:
>
>
> Unless you are using the fields pragma, consider this module discouraged
> in favor of the lighter-weight parent .
>
> From the parent.pm documentation<http://perldoc.perl.org/parent.html#HISTORY>
> :
>
> This module was forked from base to remove the cruft that had accumulated
> in it.
>
> parent.pm is a 30 lines pure Perl dual module available also in core
> since 5.10.1.
>
>
> So I've done the work to replace all "use base" with either "use parent"
> or "use parent -norequire => ". Most changes are in lib/Class/ and t/.
> The code is here:
> https://github.com/dolmen/p5-Moose/commits/topic/base-to-parent
> (branch topic/base-to-parent at git://github.com/dolmen/p5-Moose.git)
>
> I've yet not touched the 'benchmark' directory to avoid breaking reference
> values. Tell me if I should go further...
>
> Olivier Mengué (DOLMEN).
>


So far only positive votes (check the list archive of this thread).

The patch still applies cleanly on master (I've just rebased it and pushed).

Olivier.