Re: URI::URL

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> From: Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
> 
> Consider this:
> 
> $url = new URI::URL "http://www.oslonett.no/";
> $url->print_on;
> 
> when I run this script I get the following message:
> Undefined subroutine &URI::URL::_generic::print_on called at ./utest line 6.  
> 
> If I comment out the "*{"dump"} = \&print_on;" at line 1115 in URI::URL, then 
> things work as it should.  The code around line 1115 is:
> 
> # Aliases for old method names. To be deleted in a future version.
> {   package URI::URL::_generic;
>     *{"dump"} = \&print_on;
> 
> What is going on?  (I use perl5.001m and URI::URL 2.11)

I think print_on used to be defined in the URI::URL::_generic package.
The dump alias would therefore be correctly setup to refer to print_on.

At a later date print_on moved up to URI::URL. Now the act of saying
"package URI::URL::_generic; ...=\&print_on;" creates an undefined stub.
The stub intercepts the method lookup hence the error.

I'd just delete that block. It's time has passed.

> Gisle Aas                               <aas@oslonett.no>
> Oslonett AS                             http://www.oslonett.no/home/aas/
> 
Tim.

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