Re: How to implement both object->method and module::function interface?

[Hildo Biersma]

Philip Newton wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Hildo Biersma wrote:
> 
> > Persoanlly, I think both CGI.pm and File::Spec should be OO modules.
> 
> And I think CGI.pm should be procedural module :-). (I have no experience
> with File::Spec, so can't comment on it.) I think OO is sometimes
> overdone. I don't always want to have to instantiate an object just to
> call a method when it's not obvious why this method couldn't just be a
> normal subroutine.
> 
> > Having said that, I would not mind CGI.pm being a procedural front-end
> > to an CGI::Object module - I'd just use the latter.
> 
> And I would use the former. And ISTR a rumour that said that Lincoln Stein
> prefers or recommends the procedural method, even though the docs use OO
> examples.

Could we agree on the idea that CGI.pm should be split up?

Hildo