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On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 11:47:54AM -0700, Jeffrey Friedl wrote: > > Abigail <abigail@foad.org> wrote: > |> The real underlaying problems here are 1) Perl doesn't have structs, > |> but more importantly, 2) Perl only gives you one instance variable per > |> object. Pseudo-hashes tried to fix the symptoms, not the cause and > |> they didn't succeed. "clamp" tries to fix the symptoms too - and not > |> the cause. > > Assuming that Perl had perfect object-oriented mechanisms (however anyone > wishes to define "perfect"), and in practice no one used hashes for > objects, would you find no benefit for having readonly/clamped hashes? Sure, it will have some benefit. But enough that it needs a change in the language (while it also can be done with a simple tie)? I'm not so sure about that. AbigailThread Previous | Thread Next