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authorGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-11-29 10:48:39 +0000
committerGurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org>1998-11-29 10:48:39 +0000
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@@ -454,9 +454,10 @@ Always use the two-argument version if the function doing the blessing
might be inherited by a derived class. See L<perltoot> and L<perlobj>
for more about the blessing (and blessings) of objects.
-Creating objects in lowercased CLASSNAMEs should be avoided. Such
-namespaces should be considered reserved for Perl pragmata and objects
-that may be created to implement internal operations.
+Consider always blessing objects in CLASSNAMEs that are mixed case.
+Namespaces with all lowercase names are considered reserved for Perl
+pragmata. Builtin types have all uppercase names, so to prevent confusion,
+it is best to avoid such package names as well.
See L<perlmod/"Perl Modules">.