On Feb 23, 2006, at 6:43 PM, Achim Grolms wrote:
On Friday 24 February 2006 01:06, Graham Barr wrote:
GSSAPI::Name->import( $target,
principal,
gss_nt_service_name )
Calling import directly does not seem a good thing to do to me. Can
someone explain why we are doing that ?
That's the constructor, creating a new GSSAPI::Name object
and storing it into $target.
that follows the behaviour of the C-Library that returns
most of it's values through manipulating it's input
parameters.
Its unfortunate that it was decided to follow the C API names so
closely. A sub called import has a purpose in perl, namely for
importing into the current namespace. And perl will call it for use.
IMO this warrants a comment to other reading this code knows what it
does instead of what they think it might do.
Graham.
