Geoffrey Young wrote: > so, I've been thinking a bit about this and I think I recall the > original reasoning way back when... > > my $obj = $class->new(); > $r->pnotes(OBJ => $obj); > > I am almost certain that this was the original use case for pnotes as I > dig into my mind and recall the time on the list where folks were like > "wow! we can pass a perl scalar around the request." what this, um, > feature allows users to do is alter the underlying object without > re-storing it along the way: > > $obj->update_user(); > # next guy to pull it from pnotes gets the current state
actually, that will happen anyway I guess... it's a feature of references that will make that work regardless of whether we copy or alias the scalar in pnotes. so nevermind... my brane is starting to dissolve of late... --Geoff --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
