in reply to Things I Don't Use in Perl
I've never used prototypes, except for one occasion which hasn't proven all that useful (to me, anyway.)
One time I experimented with operator overloading, but then merlyn pointed out a far better (and more obvious) way to do what I needed and I haven't had a need for operator overloading since then.
I've never felt the need to use tie, prefering instead to use objects when I want a variable that has behaviour.
I never use subroutine attributes, they smell bad to me, which is part of the reason Catalyst makes me recoil in horror. (CGI::App forever! :) ) I do, however, use Test::Class, which is so cool that I can get over my objection to attributes for that one case.
I suppose the moral of the story is:
- Keep it simple, stupid
- You don't have to know/have everything to be productive
- Don't let your prejudices separate you from a good solution (e.g. Test::Class).
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Re^2: Things I Don't Use in Perl
by sri (Vicar) on Aug 24, 2005 at 01:12 UTC | |
by friedo (Prior) on Aug 24, 2005 at 02:07 UTC |