On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Hildo Biersma wrote:
> Don't impose your religion on others. If people want 'this' instead of
> 'self', that should be just fine.
>
> It should be pretty easy to define the appropriate $ME-reader like this:
>
> use ObjectStyle 'self';
>
> or
>
> use ObjectStyle 'Java';
>
> for the appropriate, per-module scoped, definitions for:
>
> - self vs this
> - super vs SUPER vs base vs parent
> - DESTROY vs finalize vs destructor
> - default of 'private', 'protected' or 'public'
>
> and any others we can come up with...
I'm all for TMTOWTDOI but I really object to this idea. I have enough to
deal with when reading other's modules without having to look for DESTROY
*or* destroy *or* finalize *or* I_am_dying *or* whatever.
Perl needs to walk a line between being flexible and remaining a language
where I can download something from CPAN and have some chance of
understanding it.
Maybe the following would be ok:
use self; # otherwise object is in @_
That I could live with. 4 different sets of object names and special sub
names would kill me.
-dave
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