>The DBI has this very problem! DBI->connect() returns DBI::db
>objects, DBI->prepare() returns DBI::st. If you want to override the
>behavior for statement handles and connections, its not enough to just
>subclass DBI::st and DBI::db, you must also subclass DBI and override
>connect() and prepare() (and hope DBI doesn't use DBI::st or DBI::db
>anywhere else.)
Yes, I hadn't even considered that such a prominent class would have
this problem ;)
>It works, but to quote Tim Bunce there... *sigh*.
>
>So anyhow, yes, this is a big, icky problem.
Quite. By the absence of many responses to this RFC, I take it that
there are no strong objections to the proposal. Likewise, there
hasn't been much talk in support of it. I take it from the silence
of the list that there is indeed a problem that this RFC addresses,
but is only sufficient to fix the problem, and not necessary.
.greg
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