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On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 12:26:25PM -0700, Tom Christiansen wrote: > >> It feels wrong because it *is* wrong. You cannot tell people, > >> beginners especially, that they cannot use the Perl that came > >> with their distribution for OO programming. > >> > >> That is not acceptable. > > > I agree. But I have a hunch that our assessment of the optimal > > solution to this might be very different. > > I doubt it. :) > > I am betting that the "optimal" solution is to import some 'mungous CPAN > framework into the core distribution, trade TMTOWTDI in for TOOWTDI, and > tell people that this is now *THE* way that Thou Shalt Do Objects in Perl. > > Are we ready to do that? Hash::Util::FieldHash *is* part of the core distribution, so we can promote PBP's suggestion for inside out objects without adding more modules to the core. ;-/ Of course, Dave's document is silent about it, and there are probably another dozen modules/techniques outthere that aren't discussed either. Picking one technique and promoting it as *THE* way of doing objects (or anything) makes my skin crawl. AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next