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On 01/31/2017 08:55 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > Sawyer X <xsawyerx@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 01/30/2017 08:47 PM, demerphq wrote: >>> FWIW, I don't think I have ever seen anyone write >>> >>> my Foo $foo= Foo->new(); >>> >>> in the wild. No doubt they do somewhere, but not in any code I have >>> looked at. And if you omit the "Foo" from "my Foo" (an easy mistake >>> IMO) then the compile time checks go away as well, and fields.pm >>> becomes completely run-time. >> Perlbal uses it. > Yep, inherited from Danga::Socket and also used by MogileFS > as a result. > > Being late to MogileFS and not speaking for the original D::S > implementers; I guess 'fields' was intended to be a speed and > space optimization in the 5.8 days which now backfires on > newer Perls. A long while ago I wanted to submit a PR that removes it from everything but it seems to take a long time to review PRs and merge them, and the project is mostly unmaintained nowadays, if I understood it correctly. I'm still willing to submit such a PR, if it helps.Thread Previous | Thread Next