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| author | Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org> | 2009-01-26 09:54:57 -0500 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2009-02-07 14:57:05 +0100 |
| commit | ba593fa967c44e6df4f1da861158e4bccc7bb768 (patch) | |
| tree | 8a20d62ec6bc3bab8290801a1f2e8b6ba7861714 /lib/UNIVERSAL.pm | |
| parent | 003db2bd2e42353866adbc9b4f1ad5f829a2b43b (diff) | |
| download | perl-ba593fa967c44e6df4f1da861158e4bccc7bb768.tar.gz | |
relocate "warnings" section of UNIVERSAL man page
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/UNIVERSAL.pm')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/UNIVERSAL.pm | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm b/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm index 1adef7a2a2..891c784b76 100644 --- a/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm +++ b/lib/UNIVERSAL.pm @@ -154,14 +154,6 @@ You may call C<can> as a class (static) method or an object method. Again, the same rule about having a valid invocant applies -- use an C<eval> block or C<blessed> if you need to be extra paranoid. -B<NOTE:> C<can> directly uses Perl's internal code for method lookup, and -C<isa> uses a very similar method and cache-ing strategy. This may cause -strange effects if the Perl code dynamically changes @ISA in any package. - -You may add other methods to the UNIVERSAL class via Perl or XS code. -You do not need to C<use UNIVERSAL> to make these methods -available to your program (and you should not do so). - =item C<VERSION ( [ REQUIRE ] )> C<VERSION> will return the value of the variable C<$VERSION> in the @@ -174,6 +166,16 @@ method. =back +=head1 WARNINGS + +B<NOTE:> C<can> directly uses Perl's internal code for method lookup, and +C<isa> uses a very similar method and cache-ing strategy. This may cause +strange effects if the Perl code dynamically changes @ISA in any package. + +You may add other methods to the UNIVERSAL class via Perl or XS code. +You do not need to C<use UNIVERSAL> to make these methods +available to your program (and you should not do so). + =head1 EXPORTS None by default. |