And if anyone tells me anything about the RequestHandler not being setup to
handle random URI's, I'll bite!
I'll fix that once I'm reasonable close ot done writing the dispatch table.
Eventually this beast will have SQL shoved into it and will begin making
database queries.
Thank you Randall Schwartz, Larry Wall, and O'Reilly!
Dennis
P.S. Sorry if I slaughtered any names in there. I did my best :P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Stout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Greenhalgh David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 21 48
Subject: Re: Why should I create an object?
> > Bare in mind that I am still a beginner at coding. Why is it "good
> > practice" to create an object when using CGI, rather than just diving
> > in?
>
> Maintainability.
>
> > For example:
> >
> > use CGI ':standard';
> > my $q=new CGI;
> > my $input=$q->param('input');
> >
> > and
> >
> > use CGI ':standard';
> > my $input=param('input');
> >
> > both put the contents of 'input' into $input and the last one has less
> > lines and less opportunity for typos, but the first is better practice
> > than the second. Gently, please; why?
>
> Okay, I'll expand on it a little.
>
> So when you leave and someone else takes over, they can maintain it and have
a
> clue. :)
>
> For instance, go here: www.stout.dyndns.org/~stout/ttms.tar.gz (2.8KB). You
> tell me how readable it is now and realize I'm using the good programming
> techniques, and tell me if it would even be close to readable if I weren't.
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
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