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

[chromatic]

On Wednesday 21 November 2007 14:18:14 Matt S Trout wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 01:29:24PM -0800, chromatic wrote:

> > On Wednesday 21 November 2007 11:17:07 Andy Wardley wrote:

> > > It says in the official documentation that UNIVERSAL::can *can* be
> > > called as a function.

> > Not anymore.

> I would buy a T-shirt of that changeset.

It would make a good poster, that's for sure:

http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.changes/2005/12/msg14252.html

-- c