On 4/7/06, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just because I (repeatedly) attack chromatic over UNIVERSAL::isa/can > nobody should be under the impression that using the functions directly > is in any way a good thing. > > The only cases for which it's genuinely useful is asking "ignoring what > you say you are in OO terms, what are you actually implemented as > underneath".
The only advantage I can think of using the function form of isa/can is that you dont have to do a ref test first. Or if you want to find out if a module is lying to you about what it isa/can do. But its not actually that useful to find out how the module is implemented underneath, nor is that useful for finding out how an object can be used/dereferenced. Actually afaik there is no good way to find out what dereferencing operators an object supports. The best that I know of is reftype(), but that only tells you the objects underlying intrinsic type, it doesnt tell you if you can dereference the type other ways. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"
