--- Dana Hudes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reinventing the wheel is a bad idea.
Reinventing the wheel is *often* a bad idea. Never say never :) > I'd much rather see you work with the existing Net::FTP > and enhance it either by patching or by subclassing. If I understood the original author correctly, he could not patch Net::FTP because those working on Net::FTP were "changing" things and not accepting new features. This has been going on for a couple of years. How many more years should we wait for this to be finished? Also, sometimes subclassing things is more trouble than it's worth. Perl is not exactly a great language for subclassing. Further, if the Net::FTP code is as bad as those on this list imply, subclassing could be virtually impossible. Just try subclassing CGI.pm, for example. I've done it, but it turned out to be more difficult than one would think and most would get it wrong. In fact, I got it wrong until Lincoln Stein pointed out my error :) Cheers, Ovid ===== Silence is Evil http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/philosophy/decency.html Ovid http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=17000 Web Programming with Perl http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/
