On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 07:24:36AM -0500, Terrence Brannon wrote: > 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.
Trust me when I say that I'm very well aware that it's not the only way. I am in no way suggesting just because the DBI now documents how it can be subclassed that most future DBI applications should be written by subclassing the DBI. Tim.
