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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
