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Postings from August 2000
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Hildo Biersma wrote: > Don't impose your religion on others. If people want 'this' instead of > 'self', that should be just fine. > > It should be pretty easy to define the appropriate $ME-reader like this: > > use ObjectStyle 'self'; > > or > > use ObjectStyle 'Java'; > > for the appropriate, per-module scoped, definitions for: > > - self vs this > - super vs SUPER vs base vs parent > - DESTROY vs finalize vs destructor > - default of 'private', 'protected' or 'public' > > and any others we can come up with... I'm all for TMTOWTDOI but I really object to this idea. I have enough to deal with when reading other's modules without having to look for DESTROY *or* destroy *or* finalize *or* I_am_dying *or* whatever. Perl needs to walk a line between being flexible and remaining a language where I can download something from CPAN and have some chance of understanding it. Maybe the following would be ok: use self; # otherwise object is in @_ That I could live with. 4 different sets of object names and special sub names would kill me. -dave /*================== www.urth.org We await the New Sun ==================*/