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On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:09:45PM +0200, Marco Marongiu wrote: > Graham Barr wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:53:55PM +0200, Marco Marongiu wrote: > > If there is one thing that concerns me is that it is implemented > > by inheritance. inheritance is usually, in my experience, used to > > extend functionality of a class. But in this case you are changing > > it. By that I mean you have overridden methods and changed their > > functionality by changing the return type. > > > > What I would suggest is that the Net::LDAP object become a property > > of your object and not inherit. > > That's what I did at first. Then I realized that I needed all functionalities > of Net::LDAP that I didn't reimplement, and I thus had to proxy every unknown > method back to Net::LDAP. That called for my module to be a subclass rather > than a "composition". I dont think that means it should be a sub-class. You need to use delegation for those methods. See http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Class::Delegation Graham.Thread Previous | Thread Next