On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:24:09PM +0100, Rob Dixon wrote: > > "Martin A. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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! > > Being a bricklayer is a fine thing. But I thought this group was > for beginner Perl programmers? If you take your module, poke it > around a little, and say 'I wonder what this will do if...' then > you will probably end up with Carhenge. Read the Owners' Manual > and you'll find that you could have driven countless times to visit > the magnificent results of a bricklayer at work across the country. > hah! so this is the sad story of OO perl. i have been warned off OO perl repeatedly, but using Bio:: (which i believe is as extensive as Net:: and HTTP::) is a major source of software reuse, especially because Bio:: stuff has a lot of parsers of text flatfiles that keep altering format.
i was really hoping that someone more clever than i, had this problem solved ... :oP martin > Cheers, > > 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]
