Mike McCandless:
> Well this is what I love about the actsAsVersion solution. There's no
> pain for our back-compat users (besides the one-time effort to set
> actsAsVersion), and new users always get the best settings.
When some mad-as-hell user complains to this list after spending an inordinate
amount of time chasing down an action-at-a-distance bug because of this
insidious and irresponsible OO design decision, I intend to follow up their
email with an I-told-you-so.
There's an action-at-a-distance bug in the Perl core module 'base.pm' that
bedeviled people for years before I finally cornered it. Turns out it can't
be fixed, but at least now we know what's happening:
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=28799
While this error does not occur frequently in the wild, when it does, the
cost to the user is high because the debug path is obscure. I personally
encountered it after failing to wrap a "use_ok" test in a BEGIN block;
isolating it took me... longer than I would have liked. ;)
That bug has led to 'base' having a compromised reputation among elite users
because of intermittent, inexplicable flakiness. Is that what you want for
Lucene?
Marvin Humphrey
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