Re: Style - how to give class method call as parameter

[dsheroh]

Well, I don't want to use named parameters for such a simple task.

Why not? It's not like they're difficult to implement/use in Perl. You could even use a mix of positional (required) parameters and named (optional) parameters:

my $success = $deployer->extend_order_lease( $order, $end_date, timeou
+t => $timeout );

There's also the option of making it an optional positional parameter, but that tends to be a bad idea, due to things getting messy if you add more optional parameters down the road.

my $success = $deployer->extend_order_lease( $order, $end_date[, $time
+out] );

[strat]

Hello dsheroh,

I don't want to use named parameters for this because it is just a simple call. I usually don't like mixed parameters, and with names for everything, I need to write something like:

my $success = $self->do_method_with_timeout(
    timeout         => $timeout,
    object_or_class => $deployer
    method          => 'extend_order_lease',
    args            => [ $order, $end_date ],
);

In my eyes, too much code for a simple thing