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.
