Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-09-10 Thread Ovid
- Original Message From: Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de I would write that my $self = shift; my ( $name ) = @_; :-) (To my way of thinking, the invocant is not a positional argument, so I always pull it out of @_ with a `shift`, whereas I unpack arguments

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-09-10 Thread Aristotle Pagaltzis
* Ovid publiustemp-moduleautho...@yahoo.com [2010-09-10 08:20]: From: Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de I would write that my $self = shift; my ( $name ) = @_; :-) (To my way of thinking, the invocant is not a positional argument, so I always pull it out of @_ with a

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-09-10 Thread Bill Ward
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Paul LeoNerd Evans leon...@leonerd.org.ukwrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 12:37:43PM -0700, Bill Ward wrote: Yes, but doing so is naughty. Really? Howso? I ask because I do it in a module of mine.

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-09-09 Thread David Nicol
one surprising aspect of perl is that Cbless affects the object, not the reference, so it is possible to rebless things, which is handy if you use package-based state machines D:\perl -le bless $o=[],'abc';print $o; sub f{$l=shift; bless $l,'DEF'} f $o; print $o abc=ARRAY(0x3e5444)

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-09-09 Thread Shawn H Corey
On 10-09-09 02:43 PM, David Nicol wrote: So whenever anyone says a Perl object is a blessed reference they're speaking procedurally, not descriptively. Descriptively, a Perl object is a reference to a blessed thingy. (I think that's correct terminology, please correct if wrong) Yes, Perl is

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-08-21 Thread nadim khemir
Hi, I see the same mistake in this module as in 99% of the modules (including mine). Why did you write it, with examples of what was wrong with the other modules. I said with examples. The fathers of the CPAN nation were wise. They advised a See Also section which should be very detailed

Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN

2010-08-21 Thread Kevin Semande
Hi Nadim, Thank you for all the great suggestions. I really appreciate your honesty, not to mention the time you took to review the module. I am definitely going to make most of the suggested changes before submitting to CPAN. In my research, the modules I saw either didn't quite do what I