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Apologies for me not tracking this very well. What is "Amores" and how does it relate to "Corinna" and, in general, Perl OOP? Thanks, Brett * Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> [2022-01-25 16:30:06 -0800]: > On 2022-01-25 8:40 a.m., Ovid via perl5-porters wrote: > > It would be nice to see public and private inner modules which are > > hidden from the outside world. These would be analogous to the utility > > of inner classes. > > ... > > Eventually, package could be used for older namespace declarations, while > > modules would be first-class and not necessarily exposed via the > > namespace mechanism unless they were public (or perhaps not even then). > > I wanted to address this tangent to both Corinna and Amores etc. > > I feel that it is important for class names and module names etc to always > have publicly addressable names in the same manner as classic Perl package > names, even when they are declared as "private" within other classes or > modules. > > This is especially true with classes that can be instantiated as objects. > > At the very least this is important to properly support reliable > serialization/export/dump and deserialization/import of objects as their > structure or fields might be defined in terms of such "inner" classes even > if those classes are "inner" because they aren't intended to be used apart > from what they are nested in. > > Likewise it is important for keeping debugging easier. > > Likewise it would probably make implementation behind the scenes simpler. > > So declaring a class/module ":private" should simply block normal-style > invocation of it from particular contexts but it should not prevent the > awareness of the existence of the class/module from anywhere. Regular > reflection/introspection capabilities such as they exist should still know > about these. > > -- Darren Duncan -- -- oodler@cpan.org oodler577@sdf-eu.org SDF-EU Public Access UNIX System - http://sdfeu.org irc.perl.org #openmp #pdl #nativeThread Previous | Thread Next