John Siracusa wrote:The tied(?) hash interfaces in DBI grate on me. You know, $dbh->{'RaiseError'}, $sth->{'Active'}, and all that jazz. I'd sorely like to see these change to normal methods with more Perl-ish names: $dbh->raise_error(0); $sth->active; $sth->ix_cursor_with_hold(1);
That gains absolutely *no* functionality for the burden of loosing compatibility. Besides, we obviously have different feelings, what's "Perl-ish" or not. Please, don't.
Jochen
Unless interface redundancy is bad, I don't see why we can't add the methods that John mentioned, while also keeping the old tied interfaces. This way, people can write consistently to a method-based API if they want, *and* old programs won't break. Sure, ties are Perlish, but despite that it is good to have interface consistency within your options. -- Darren Duncan
