Calling UNIVERSAL::can() as a function is allowed.
Andy Wardley
abw at wardley.org
Thu Nov 22 07:34:31 GMT 2007
chromatic wrote:
>> It says in the
>> official documentation that UNIVERSAL::can *can* be called as a function.
>
> Not anymore.
Fair enough. Probably about time, too. Although strictly speaking, it does
still says that you can call U::can as a function, but warns:
...however it is usually harmful to do so. Please don't do this in
new code.
So it's still valid, but officially Not Recommended.
A
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