On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:38:52PM -0600, Rod Adams wrote:
> There lingers the case of:
>
> use Foo; # from above, exports &bar is MMD::Random
>
> multi sub bar {...}
>
> Does this generate an error, since one could expect this particular &bar
> to be Manhattan? Or does it assume Random, since there's already a &bar
> in existence? In my head, it currently makes sense to say that the new
> &bar inherits the Random policy. Only something like:
This seems like action-at-a-distance to me; I use some random module,
define a couple of multis without realizing that they also exist in
the module, and am baffled as to why I don't get the dispatch behavior
I expect.
--Dks