Hi,
Am Dienstag, 20. Januar 2004 19:51 schrieb Perrin Harkins:
What about the other 200+ methods in about 30 modules? People will still need to figure out what to load to use these (e.g. Apache::URI's methods don't necessarily work with $r, so how do you know that you need to load that module?)
I think it's fine for people to explicitly load Apache::URI in order to call methods like Apache::URI->foo(), but not for methods that are called through $r, or $s, or any other object that the user gets passed.
Where do you install that AUTOLOAD on functions or modules which aren't $r or $s operators?
I don't want to AUTOLOAD anything that isn't called through one of those.
This is exactly what I try to say for the last x mails. Whenever I act with a object of type x, I do a 'use x;'. Here a example I can use print without RequestIO but sure I must load APR::Table to use method set.
use APR::Table; use Apache::RequestRec; sub handler : method { my $r = shift; $r->print('xx'); my $t = $r->notes; $t->set('foo'); }
That's not what Perrin is talking about I think. So you do suggest that a user need to load 'Apache::RequestRec' to get $r methods?
Perrin suggests that you don't need to load anything from your code, because you already receive $r, so the methods should be there already. Compared to the situation where you create the object by yourself. So if I understand Perrin's vision, that code should work with:
use APR::Table;
sub handler : method {
my $r = shift;
$r->print('xx');
my $t = $r->notes;
$t->set('foo');
}my problem is why $r is magical, but not $t. Why inconsistency? if you didn't create $t, you shouldn't need to load APR::Table, it should be there for you, just like with $r.
So as you can see your and Perrin's views aren't exactly the same. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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