Re: The spewing problem.

[Christopher H. Laco]

Ovid wrote:

--- Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

However I
am yet to see anything other than a monkeypatch on Ovid's journal,
and an incomplete patch linked earlier on the thread.

Care to explain the term 'monkeypatch'?

package MyStuff;
use Someone::Elses::Junk;

*Someone::Elses::Junk::foo = sub {

};

sub foo {
   my $obj = Someone::Elses::Junk->new;
   $obj->foo(...);
};

Give or take my bad example thereof.

I've always heard of it as injecting code into someone elses [broken] module to get things fixed or changed when subclassing is a no go:

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