2000-08-07-19:22:59 Michael Fowler:
> Is $CURRENT_PACKAGE any different, value-wise, than __PACKAGE__?
I'm guessing no, unless I've misunderstood something from the
preceeding discussion.
> Is there a reason to prefer it?
I suppose some folks who want to do a truly stunningly huge amount
of this stuff might want to get an variable they can slightly more
easily interpolate, and don't want to just
my $CURRENT_PACKAGE = __PACKAGE__;
right after the "package" declaration. But you'd really have to be
doing a _huge_ amount to pay for the extra
documentation/implementation complexity.
> I understand it can be interpolated, making it easier to use
> within a string, but weigh that against adding yet another special
> variable, for a value that's already available otherwise.
and if you don't want to do a gigantic amount of it, stuff like
bless { "@{[__PACKAGE__]}stuff" => 0, ... }, $self;
isn't too bad.
-Bennett
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