in reply to Re^3: Seeking inside-out object implementations
in thread Seeking inside-out object implementations
Perl programmers have come to expect to be able to get at the innards of objects easily -- that the internals are *not* encapsulated in any meaningful way. One can fairly argue that that creates a number of weaknesses and/or potentially fatal problems -- problems that would exist in some fashion any time an object is not opaque. Consider the risks one would take by making the attributes of a Jave class public.
Inside-out objects do encapsulate quite fiercely, and are very opaque. If one needs to serialize an opaque object, that object needs to provide that capability itself. One might expect a standard mechanism for doing that. "to_string" might be a suitable method name. I think PBP advocates creating just such a routine for this purpose.
It sort of comes down to "managing expectations", and, particularly, changing those expectations.
Michael
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