Piers Cawley wrote:
>
> > >I strongly agree with the opinion that we should try and get away from
> > >special variables and switches in favor of functions and pragmas.
> > >Witness 'use base' instead of '@ISA', 'use warnings', and so on.
> >
> > Huh? Why??? Perl's use of @ISA is beautiful. It's an example
> > of code reuse, because we don't need no stinking syntax!
>
> Indeed. Clear, simple, works. And if you're that way inclined lets you
> do all sorts of weird shit. I say keep it.
I *do* agree with keeping @ISA, actually. :-) My message was spawned by
a message of Ilya's proposing that we slash and burn everything except a
very few variables. I actually said that this was a fragile approach.
But I do agree new variables should be avoided where possible.
Shit, 90% of my modules would break, including Class::Handler, which I
particularly like (and there's no way around @ISA with 'use base', since
it works at runtime).
-Nate
