Remove a spurious undefined warning when using getopts.pl with -w.

[perl5.git] / lib / base.pm

diff --git a/lib/base.pm b/lib/base.pm
index b735848..832b6a4 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/base.pm
+++ b/lib/base.pm
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ package base;
 
 use strict 'vars';
 use vars qw($VERSION);
-$VERSION = '2.04';
+$VERSION = '2.06';
 
 # constant.pm is slow
 sub SUCCESS () { 1 }
@@ -152,10 +152,9 @@ sub inherit_fields {
         }
     }
 
-    unless( keys %$bfields ) {
-        foreach my $idx (1..$#{$battr}) {
-            $dattr->[$idx] = $battr->[$idx] & INHERITED;
-        }
+    foreach my $idx (1..$#{$battr}) {
+       next if defined $dattr->[$idx];
+       $dattr->[$idx] = $battr->[$idx] & INHERITED;
     }
 }
 
@@ -198,6 +197,17 @@ base classes each have inheritable fields the 'base' pragma will
 croak.  See L<fields>, L<public> and L<protected> for a description of
 this feature.
 
+=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Base class package "%s" is empty.
+
+base.pm was unable to require the base package, because it was not
+found in your path.
+
+=back
+
 =head1 HISTORY
 
 This module was introduced with Perl 5.004_04.