Calling UNIVERSAL::can() as a function is allowed. (was: [OT] best way to determine existence of a function in a package)

[Kake L Pugh]

On Wed 21 Nov 2007, Andy Wardley <abw at wardley.org> wrote:
> I've been personally bitten by the OO dogma when I started getting bug
> reports about TT not working with one of the popular database ORM packages
> (Class::DBI?  DBIx::Class?  Can't remember off hand).  It turns out that
> this package had recently started using the UNIVERSAL::can from CPAN which
> advertises itself as a "Hack around people calling UNIVERSAL::can() as a
> function".

I had to stop using Test::MockObject because of this.  It's a shame,
because I liked Test::MockObject, but if it won't play nicely with
Template then I can't use it.

Kake