Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 13:21:00 -0800 From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes To: "Randy W. Sims" Cc: Nick Ing-Simmons , cygwin@cygwin.com, perl5-porters@perl.org, module-build-general@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Module::Build] Re: Cwd::cwd() bug??? on Cygwin Message-ID: <20031121212059.GA2236@efn.org> Mail-Followup-To: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes , "Randy W. Sims" , Nick Ing-Simmons , cygwin@cygwin.com, perl5-porters@perl.org, module-build-general@lists.sourceforge.net References: <3FAF853D.4000202@urth.org> <3FB00F47.10400@ThePierianSpring.org> <3FB0ACC8.6030402@urth.org> <3FB30BB3.10405@ThePierianSpring.org> <3FB50640.2010908@urth.org> <3FB55A73.5060806@ThePierianSpring.org> <3FB64CB5.4060802@ThePierianSpring.org> <3FBD695A.9020307@ThePierianSpring.org> <20031121110334.3098.7@llama.elixent.com> <3FBDF54F.2080808@ThePierianSpring.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FBDF54F.2080808@ThePierianSpring.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: bs"d On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 06:21:51AM -0500, "Randy W. Sims" wrote: > >>># test.pl > >>>package MyModule; > >>>use Module; > >>>use base 'Module'; > >>>use Cwd; > > > > > >If you moved that above the use Module line then when Module.pm > >was compiled it would know Cwd::cwd was a function. > > Tried that too. Removing it does work though, but that's not a solution; > it's not reasonable to tell clients that subclass your library not to > 'use Cwd'. If your class provides a method foo(), it is reasonable to tell those who subclass that defining a sub foo or importing one from elsewhere into their class will override the base method foo(). > I'm having a hard time grasping the order in which perl is interpreting > this. What is desired is that $p->cwd() call Module::cwd() which should > then forward the call to Cwd::cwd(). But no matter how I rearrange > things I can't coax the behavior I want. > > I'm missing something simple here; I know it... use Cwd (); ?? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/