Bug#365142: ITP: libuniversal-isa-perl -- Safer version of UNIVERSAL::isa

[Krzysztof Krzyzaniak <eloy@kofeina.net>]

Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:16:20AM +0200, Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy) wrote:
>> Package: wnpp
>> Severity: wishlist
>> Owner: "Krzysztof Krzyzaniak (eloy)" <eloy@debian.org>
>>
>> * Package name    : libuniversal-isa-perl
>>   Version         : 0.06
>>   Upstream Author : Autrijus Tang <autrijus@autrijus.org>
>>   	   	    chromatic <chromatic@wgz.org>
>> 		    Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
>> * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/~chromatic/UNIVERSAL-isa/
>> * License         : Perl: GPL/Artistic
>>   Programming Lang: Perl
>>   Description     : Safer version of UNIVERSAL::isa
>>
>>  This module replaces UNIVERSAL::isa with a version that makes sure that,
>>  when called as a function on objects which override isa, isa will call
>>  the appropriate method on those objects
>>  .
>>  In all other cases, the real UNIVERSAL::isa gets called directly.
> 
> What does "isa" stand for? Please spell it out at least once.
> I don't think you're talking about the "Industry Standard/System
> Architecture" bus.

"isa" stands for "is a". It just simple function/method.

http://perldoc.perl.org/UNIVERSAL.html

  eloy
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