Garrett, Philip (MAN-Corporate) wrote:
I'm just trying to make the DT::LI object act like a DT. Isn't that the idea?
The idea is to allow quick creation of DT objects .. mainly for the
purpose of creating thousands of DT object that lazily inflate to
full-blown DateTime objects. It would be good to transparently inflate
everything, but I'm not going to do that at the expense of adding overloads.
To help with this, the next release will have inflate() rather than
__inflate() in order to allow deliberate inflation without feeling like
you're messing with internals.
I think it will also allow you to add a Class name to inflate() so that
you can use your subclassing ..
print ref $dtLI;
# DateTime::LazyInit;
$dtLI->inflate('yourClass');
print ref $dtLI;
# yourClass
Cheers!
Rick Measham
P.S. if you want to run benchmarking on the overloading, and it shows
that it doesn't increase load or creation time(span) of DT:LI objects
I'm willing to reconsider, but I'm a bit loathe :)
