> PRL> One powerful application of delegation is as a replacement for
> PRL> inheritance where the internals of a prospective base class are
> PRL> inaccessible or inconvenient, or the base class was not designed
> PRL> to be inherited and yet it must be.
>
> isn't this a HAS_A type of relationship?
Yep.
> i have plenty of these in my new project and it is a pain.
Yep. Hence this RFC.
> PRL> use Class::Delegation
>
> shouldn't that be use delegation? i think you have a cut and paste
> error.
You're correct. Many thanks.
(That's what I get for pre-testing all the code in my RFCs! ;-)
> PRL> in => [qw( getline getlines getc ungetc eof read sysread
> PRL> input_record_separator input_line_number )],
>
> what about a way of delegating ALL the methods of an object? any way to
> signify that?
>
> in => 'ALL',
>
> will look up all current methods (maybe tagged?) from the class 'in' and
> handle that. then you don't have to update all the delegation calls each
> time the 'in' object changes.
Specifying C<in => []> does that. See the description of "catch-alls"
below the bit you've quoted.
Damian
