On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 05:58:46AM +0100, Gerald Richter wrote:
> > another approach, that seems to be what people intuitively want is to
> > have each file inherit from other copies of itself further up the
> > search path. sort of like an implicit [$ uses "../$thisfile" $].
> 
> I have considered this when I wrote EmbperlObject, I simply didn't do so for
> performance reasons. If we have the [$ uses ... $] you suggest, anybody can
> simply insert a
> 
> [$ uses "../*" $]
> 
> at the top of the file that should inherence from it's base. Do you think
> that would be ok, or do you think this should be done automaticly by Embperl
> ?

personally, [$ uses $] is quite enough for me.

a few people seem to expect the [$ uses '../*' $] behaviour when they
hear talk about search paths and selectively overriding things.

but considering the performance impact, i think it would be best to
document [$ uses '../*' $] and let people do it themselves.

-- 
 - Gus

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