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UNIVERSAL-which (0.01)

NO NO NO NO NO NO !!!!

UNIVERSAL::anything modules are _bad_.

They pollute the namespace, and cause strange action at a distance.

This module will make any call to a ->which method in any loaded module which goes via an AUTOLOAD fail.

This same functionality would be trivial to add to something like Class::Inspector, without having to muck with UNIVERSAL in the process.

This, and pretty much every single other UNIVERSAL::something module, should never be used in production. There's tentative but reluctant acceptance of UNIVERSAL::isa/can because they CHANGE the behaviour of existing functions, but even they do not ADD to the APIs.

This module, along with things like UNIVERSAL::clone, do not belong on CPAN.

Adam Kennedy - 2006-05-13 21:41:09
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