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From:
demerphq
Date:
August 30, 2010 01:16
Subject:
Re: mauve::reftype()
Message ID:
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On 30 August 2010 03:58, David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 6:57 PM, demerphq <demerphq@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have pushed a patch to add "fixed" versions of reftype, refaddr and
>> blessed to universal.c, additionally
>> at jesse's request this includes weaken() (and its relative isweak).
>>
>> I used the namespace "mauve" for now.
>>
>> I think the namespace should either be 'ref' or 'scalar'.
>
> I'm late to the debate, but on the nitpicky issue of namespace, I
> would have preferred you just picked one instead of a fake one. A
> fake one guarantees we have to change it. A plausible one stands a
> chance of not changing.
A plausable one has the distinct disadvantage of being a lousy search
target if it does have to change.
"mauve" has the distinct advantage of being unique in our codebase.
> Without supporting the idea itself, I mildly prefer "scalar" because I
> associate such functions with Scalar::Util already, though I have
> slight reservations about "scalar" because of autobox and confusion
> (overlap?) with SCALAR.
>
> More generally, I question the benefit (wisdom) of jamming things into
> universal.c. Why not fix Scalar::Util? Why not make them proper
> keywords protected by 'feature'?
See my other mail. Short answer a), the routines dont behave the same
as they do in Scalar::Util, b) feature makes it extremely difficult to
provide a backwards compatible equivalency layer.
> Adding new universal namespaces seems like just another kludgy way of
> enhancing the core without breaking backwards compatibility and we
> already have the feature kludge for that.
The feature idea is broken. Completely broken.
Show me how you would provide a backwards compatibility layer for a
feature, and show me how code would be written so it worked fine in a
new perl and an old perl.
When you stare at the mess you have to write you will understand why
"use feature" as an idea is a bad idea to be used /only/ when no other
approach makes sense.
> After considering it briefly, I think that if "everyone needs them",
> then they should be keywords under feature. If not, then they should
> be in a module and Scalar::Util should just be fixed. If it varies by
> function, then split them up accordingly.
>
> FWIW, I've always thought that blessed and weaken should be core
> keywords. The others strike me as more specialized functions that
> could just live in a fixed Scalar::Util and imported when needed.
The whole idea is so that they are available without having to use a
module. But that they can also be loaded with a module.
cheers,
Yves
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