Re: Best Method of Object-Oriented Behavior Addition?


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Re: Best Method of Object-Oriented Behavior Addition?

by jreades (Friar)

on Sep 29, 2000 at 19:25 UTC ( [id://34619]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Is the special case exclusive? Meaning, is it a case the all objects of class 'Y' will behave differently based on the command-line switch? Or is it just once in a while?

Based on the answer to that you have two choices:

Intermittent behaviour: your solution is an excellent one (extending won't work)
Consistent behaviour: I'd change the constructor so that the method itself works differently

my $0.02