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2008/5/6 Ricardo SIGNES <perl.p5p@rjbs.manxome.org>:
> Today, I was doing some mucking about with class data, generated packages, and
> Class::ISA, and I started to wail and gnash my teeth. I cried, "Why can't I
> just replaced the darn object system?"
>
> It would let me use any kind of MRO I wanted, including some crazy MRO that I
> only want in one extreme case. It would let me do truly classless OO, avoiding
> the pseudo-anonymous "classes" created by things like Package::Generator. It
> would let me have a clear distinction between class and object methods.
>
> A truly anemic start would be to write classes with no methods save for
> AUTOLOAD. Unfortunately, AUTOLOAD does not catch universal methods. This is
> worse than just having to write a "can" and "isa." If anything in your process
> loads UNIVERSAL::{moniker,require} or Sub::Install, or any of a number of other
> things that muck with UNIVERSAL, your code will change in bizarre ways.
I would just write something along "no autoload"
Autovification of method calls should be pragmatized, being able to turn it off.
--
Reini Urban
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