in reply to Use method/function signatures with Perl
- what kind of speed penalty your dispatching has
- what kind of impact it has on caller() and other introspective code
- if it correctly handles
sub foo(CGI $cgi) { ... } sub foo(CGI $cgi, ARRAY $arr) { ... }
- Why do you use ref() (or potentially isa() ...) over Scalar::Util's blessed()? I've had serious issues when HTML::Template used isa() to determine ARRAY when I had overloaded stringification on my object. Using blessed() or can() would have solved that problem ...
- Is the problem with more than one package in a file your problem or Filter::Simple's problem? If it's F::S's problem, you should state that as a limitation of the engine you're using.
- Why don't you allow sub foo(@arr) { ... } instead of sub foo(ARRAY $arr) { ... }? Wouldn't that give me the prototype sub foo(@);, allowing me to rewrite push?
And, finally ... why did you use a source filter yourself instead of using Attributes? I would have thought that Attributes would have provided a tested source filter so you could have focused on your core requirements instead of worrying about the source filter yourself.
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