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From:
Kurt D. Starsinic
Date:
September 1, 2001 08:02
Subject:
Re: New interface styles
Message ID:
20010901080233.B29926@wolfetech.com
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 11:08:09AM -0400, Kirrily Robert wrote:
> In lists.projects.perl.modules, you wrote:
> >I believe this was discussed a while ago, but no action was taken.
> >
> >Two new interface styles are needed.
> >
> >First is 'p' for 'pragma'.  This is for things like
> >Lingua::Romana::Perligata, y2k, AnyLoader, etc... that actually alter
> >the behavior of the program just by their being used.

    I'm in favor of this.

> >The second is 'o' for 'other'.  A lot of stuff just doesn't fit.
> >Test::Inline lets you put code in POD.  What the hell kind of
> >interface is that?

    I don't see how that affects what kind of interface it is.  It's
still functional, OO, declarative, procedural, whatever.

    - Kurt


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