On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:31:03 +0000, Tim Bunce <tim.bu...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:10:07PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: > > On Oct 29, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Tim Bunce wrote: > > > >> I could arrange for Callbacks to only apply to methods called by the > >> applicationi, and not to 'nested calls'. That's a fairly major change > >> after this length of time but given the limited use Callbacks have had, > >> and the lack of documentation, it's not out of the question. > >> > >> The downside is that to intercept all fetched rows in a general way > >> (like some kind of plugin utility module might want to do) you now have > >> to add callbacks for 7 $sth fetch* methods and 6 $dbh select* methods. > >> > >> Is that really preferable? > > > > Well, yes. > > Okay. Anyone else care to express an opinion? So far I didn't really follow. I just assumed that all would go well. Will any of this influence DBD authors to have to change/add/update their modules? > > But if there were 'fetch*' and 'select*' keys that could go to > > all of them at once, that would be cool, too. > > Let's revisit that topic when/if post-call callbacks get supported. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http://qa.perl.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
