Re: What are the drawbacks of autobox?

[punkish]

not adding anything of value to this discussion other than to say, thanks for bringing autobox to my attention. I had no idea this existed. And, contrary to what others may think, I do find the ability to "turn everything into objects" very useful. It is not a matter of "if I want to code like Ruby then I should use Ruby." It is more like giving Perl the ability to program in a currently popular, and arguably easier, idiom of programming.

Look forward to more dissection and discussion of autobox.

[LanX]

> not adding anything of value to this discussion

Your plain wrong, you did! ;-)

I was recently complaining about many Pythonistas having this fundamentalist "There is only one true way to code and Guido is the prophet" attitude.

I was even claiming that the Perl crowd having more tolerance about paradigms, giving them the flexibility to adopt to new tasks...

Well ...maybe I wasn't completely wrong ... thanks! 8)

[dsheroh]

There's flexibility and there's following fads.

Show me a valid, real-world use case in which there is a significant advantage to treating the number 3 as an object rather than as a simple integer and I'm happy to be flexible and consider whether I would find a benefit in doing things that way. Until then, the idea that everything must be an object and all action should be expressible as method calls looks an awful lot like a fad to me.

[LanX]

Show me a valid, real-world use case...

OK one more try:

This is valid JS Code: ¹

var fruits = ["Banana", "Orange", "Apple", "Mango"];
document.write(fruits.push("Kiwi") + "<br />");
document.write(fruits.push("Lemon","Pineapple") + "<br />");
document.write(fruits);

this is still valid JS-Code

var $fruits = ["Banana", "Orange", "Apple", "Mango"];
document.write($fruits.push("Kiwi") + "<br />");
document.write($fruits.push("Lemon","Pineapple") + "<br />");
document.write($fruits);

with the help of autobox this could become valid perl code:

my $fruits = ["Banana", "Orange", "Apple", "Mango"];
document->write($fruits->push("Kiwi") + "<br />");
document->write($fruits->push("Lemon","Pineapple") + "<br />");
document->write($fruits);

or maybe better without overloading +

my $fruits = ["Banana", "Orange", "Apple", "Mango"];
document->write($fruits->push("Kiwi") . "<br />");
document->write($fruits->push("Lemon","Pineapple") . "<br />");
document->write($fruits);

Real world enough for you???

¹) from my first google hit on "javascript push" http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_push.asp

UPDATE: corrected . to ->

[LanX]

Show me a valid, real-world use case in which there is a significant advantage to treating the number 3 as an object rather than as a simple integer

Your reducing the possibilities of autobox to a little feature.

And did I ever say I want to call a method on 3?

I'm really surprised by the emotions caused by this little question about the technical side-effects of a cpan module, I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition...