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On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:33:46PM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote: > > But your package does not support use by people who don't (want to) > > know about your package. And given that tie() is so much more useful > > than your package, it is a killer argument. > > What package supports people that don't want to know about the > package? [Well, there are exceptions, like Term::ReadLine::Gnu/Perl, but] this is exactly my point. It is not that users were *freed* from learing tie()ing. It is that *instead* of learning tie(), users are encouraged to learn some other (no less obscure, but much less powerful) API. And IMO this new API provides much worse learning/bang ratio than tie(). Of course, there *will* be people who would like the new taste better. I just do not think that we (as a community) should encourage such unfair substitutions. IMO it would be much better to add a "cookbook" section to perltie which analyses this example. IlyaThread Previous | Thread Next