I haven't (and won't) have time to go into this in detail :-(
I feel that this proposal is solving the wrong problem. The issue is
that the original Forest and Frog (or DBI and DBI::st) classes are not
*designed* for user-definable Frogs (DBI::st's). If that functionality
is widely needed, the
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 05:49:28AM -, Perl6 RFC Librarian wrote:
Here's where the problem lies. Even though we now have a subclass
of Frog, the Forest class is still referencing the original Frog
class and not Frog::Japanese.
The DBI has this very problem! DBI-connect() returns DBI::db
[From DBI-connect()]
# XXX this is inelegant but practical in the short term, sigh.
if ($installed_rootclass{$class}) {
$dbh-{RootClass} = $class;
bless $dbh = $class.'::db';
my ($outer, $inner) = DBI::_handles($dbh);
bless $inner = $class.'::db';
