Ah, interesting, I missed those packages when searching for "prior
art". Class::Decorator seems not to allow what I want (new arbitrary
methods) but instead seems to allow you to insert pre and post code.
Class::Wrapper is closer but I don't think it is compatible because of
all the hackery I have to do to get the inheritence right for
overloaded operations (I have to make a package on the fly to get the
ISA magic right).
That said the Class namespace might be better than the Object one I am
currently using, perhaps Class::Overload::Stringify?
I thought about implementing a way to do all of the overloadable
operators, but there are some nasty twists that way... Perhaps I will
look at that again.
-ben
On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 12:02:06PM -0500, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2003, Ben Bennett wrote:
>
> > This class allows you to wrap an arbitrary object and provide
> > stringification and numification methods while changing the interface
> > to the object as little as possible.
>
> Have you taken a look at Class::Decorator on CPAN? What you've
> implemented is more or less the decoration pattern, but specifically
> oriented at overloading. I'd suggest either offering a patch to
> Class::Decorator to allow for overloading or to implement a
> Class::Decorator::Overload module that uses Class::Decorator and adds
> overloading, if the author doesn't accept your patch.
>
>
> -dave
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