As I understand it SMD is now not much more than a mechanism to place a constraint on the MMD, saying that there can only be one method or subroutine with the same short name.
Why is this the default?
MMD has a huge value for amending software (especially not your own
software) - specialized cases can be just added next to the generic
one, and they provide either:
a. a better interface for specific data
b. a better implementation for specific data
c. both
but since it is specialized it shouldn't be the one and only
short name - it's not generic.
So far so good?
method foo is unique ($param) {
}
From then on no possibly compatible shortnames can be added, and if
there were any,. it's also an error.
If there is any use for SMD besides uniquifying, please clarify it.
If not, please clarify why it should be the default for a module
author who hasn't thought about it - all it does is prevent me from
appending to his code conveniently.
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