On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, brian moseley wrote:
> i've been using isa() in my stuff quite a bit for type
> checking. sad to hear it causes bloat!
well, its probably only a few hundred bytes per-package.
> sadder to find out
> that if you specify >1 class with 'use base', isa() only
> tests positively for the first specified class :/
how do you mean?
> is can() just as bloaty?
can() also creates a cache, but its the same cache that Perl uses
internally for the method lookup cache. whereas the isa() bloat is only
used by isa().
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