On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:18:24PM +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: > > "Ovid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >The problem here is that it will not print inherited or AUTOLOADed methods. > > > [snip] > > > > > > So traverse the inheritance hierarchy and do the same thing with each class: > > > > > > http://search.cpan.org/author/SBURKE/Class-ISA-0.32/ISA.pm > > > > That's certainly a decent 95% solution and if you *really* > > need it, it's a good idea. The original problem, though, > > is not one that I want to encourage most people to solve > > because for most programmers, when things get that complicated, > > it turns out that there's an underlying design flaw that needs > > to be addressed. > > > > Of course, people seem to get mad when I say that :) > > I'll second that. Absolutely. > > If you've created an object and are asking, 'Now what can I do > with this object?' then you're not designing software, you're > laying bricks. Find a module that, from the documentation, > looks like it will do what you want. Then commit to using that > module with the documented interface alone. After that, if > you find you've made the wrong decision, be prepared to backtrack > as far as necessary to redeem yourself.
first of all. objects and modules are for software reuse as i understand it. so installing and using modules from CPAN leaves me as a bricklayer! so i have found a module which is fulfilling my needs, but i find it very annoying that i cannot simple dump all the functions connected to a certain object. now im advised to read the module documentation (which can be poor) of this object, AND the module documentation of ALL inherited objects! i find it rediculous to go the "documentation path", where you clearly should be able to understand the code based on the code itself! i am aware that OO perl is about abstraction of the code, but this is no good. but enough nagging. even if this is a tricky problem, cant it be solved? if using the ISA.pm as suggested, you are able to track the inheritance solving 95% of the problem, then what is the remaining 5% ? i guess i wish for a widget to go print DumpFunctions( $obj ); does it exist? martin > > Software built on what a module /can/ do instead of what it's > /supposed/ to do isn't a useful thing in any way. > > Rob > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
