Re: RFC 254 (v1) Class Collections: Provide the ability tooverload classes

2000-09-20 Thread Greg Williams
>I wonder if this problem couldn't be solved with a proper combination of >@ISA, SUPER::, NEXT::, and use delegation? (calling Damian... :-) The problem I see is a bit of trickery would be necessary to get static calls to the class to resolve to the appropriate method. Using Schwern's DBI examp

Re: RFC 254 (v1) Class Collections: Provide the ability tooverload classes

2000-09-20 Thread Greg Williams
nt to fix the problem, and not necessary. .greg -- Greg Williams, Cnation, (310) 228-6924 "Wow, no intel, no microsoft, sounds like a computer that might... dare I say it... work!" -LHB

Re: RFC 254 (v1) Class Collections: Provide the ability tooverload classes

2000-09-20 Thread Greg Williams
d published class APIs as that will break your code (as it should) when class implementations change. REFERENCES RFC 172 - Precompiled Perl scripts. Filter::decrypt http://search.cpan.org/doc/PMQS/Filter-1.19/decrypt/decrypt.pm .greg -- Greg Williams| If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, Cnation | think of what is going to happen as if it had [EMAIL PROTECTED] | already happened.

Re: RFC 254 (v1) Class Collections: Provide the ability tooverload classes

2000-09-30 Thread Greg Williams
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, David L. Nicol wrote: > First we create a virtual environment to load the package into, then we > define the methods we wish to overload, then we define all the methods > to pass through the args -- No, this is not needed at all, we can use ISA > for that can't we! > >p

Regarding RFC 254 - Class Collections

2000-09-27 Thread Greg Williams
ception), I am at a loss of what to do. Has anybody else experienced this problem (as detailed in the RFC)? Does anybody else have an opinion on the proposal the RFC makes? Any feedback is greatly appreciated. Regards, Greg -- Greg Williams| If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, Cnatio

Re: RFC 357 (v1) Perl should use XML for documentation instead ofPOD

2000-10-02 Thread Greg Williams
gt;XML files are text files, as I said above, but even less than HTML >are they meant to be read by humans. They are text files, because >that allows experts (such as programmers) to more easily debug >applications, and in emergencies, they can use a simple text editor >to fix a bro

Re: RFC 339 (v1) caller->eval BLOCK

2000-10-02 Thread Greg Williams
At 18:43 -0500 2000/10/02, David L. Nicol wrote: >Hmm. C could be implemented in terms of the rfc 340 C like >so: > > $scope_out_here = with; > if ($ints) { > with $scope_out_here {use integer} > }; > >C is about subroutine calls. Interesting! I have a few questions (meandering thoug