On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 07:40 PM, Tim Bunce wrote:

>
> Anyone not very comfortable with assigning to @ISA should not
> be trying to subclass the DBI!
>
> But having said that, it certainly could be made easier...
>

My experience is that an application needing extended database 
functionality beyond DBI should make use of a $dbh in a container 
class, instead of subclassing DBI...

You are right, that the most common way to extend a class with 
new functionality is to subclass it, but as I am sure your Perl 
Whirl talk with Damian will reveal, it is not the only way.

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