Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A different OO approach

[shotgunefx]

I very much agree with "once and only once", my origins as a programmer were steeped in Asm and C. I realized quickly how it sucked cutting and pasting code (or making changes), then hunting down all the errors I cut and pasted. But on the other hand, I do a lot of CGI and including a dozen odd modules (and there includes) can quickly kill response time. (mod_perl isn't always an option.)

I'm not advocating people not use modules, but for myself, when it is something like this, were it amounts to a a few lines of code, I tend to keep it in a snippet file and cut and paste it into the source. In the simplest form..

sub add   {
    my ($self,$name,$value) = @_;
    return if $name !~/^\w+$/;
    my $pack = ref $self;
    no strict 'refs';
    *{$pack.'::'.$name} = sub : lvalue { $Attrs{+shift}->{$name} };
}

seems extreme for a module. On the other hand, if your attributes are more complex it could easily become worthy of using a module.

And yes I was confusing you with the poster, my bad.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

[adrianh]

In the simplest form...seems extreme for a module.

I'm afraid I'm the sort of weirdo who will write a module for a one-liner if it means I don't have to type it twice. I'll then code something to inline it automatically if efficiency proves to be an issue :-)

On the other hand, if your attributes are more complex it could easily become worthy of using a module.

It's not that they're more complex, it's that when I refactor code they tend to move around a fair bit between classes. Since I change them a lot, forgetting to tweak a DESTROY method or update a list of attributes is exactly what I'm likely to do. It's an artifact of my development style.

[Aristotle]

I'm the sort of weirdo who will write a module for a one-liner if it means I don't have to type it twice. I'll then code something to inline it automatically if efficiency proves to be an issue :-)

Heh, I was thinking just that while I was reading shotgunefx's post. That makes two of us I guess. :)

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