On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:42:38PM -0700, Daniel S. Wilkerson wrote:
> Someone please tell me what automatic method generation is exactly.
Its the generation of large numbers of similar methods which would
otherwise be really tedious to write out by hand, such as accessor
methods. Without this, object-oriented programming would be
hand-cramping tedium (or an elaborate exercise in editor macros).
Its also very useful for generating complete sub-classes on the fly.
Class::Accessor and Class::MethodMaker are two modules which I can
think of off the top of my head that do this in Perl. Class::DBI
absolutely depends on it. Java trips rather badly on this technique.
For some elaboration...
http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/papers/Why_I_Am_Not_A_Java_Programmer/why.pod
in particular the section entitled "No dynamic method generation"
For a really elaborate elaboration...
http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/papers/Closures_and_Accessors/Closures_and_Automated_Accessors.txt
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