Re: Properties and stricture

[Piers Cawley]

Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Consider the following... Foo is a poster-child for a strict class.
> Everything is predeclared and typed.  Its entire hierarchy is rock
> solid.  Someone uses Foo in their script and calls Foo->bar.  They
> also use Bar, a module you installed a long time ago.  Bar does this:
> 
>         package Bar;
>         eval "sub Foo::bar { 23 }";
> 
> Oh crap!  All the wonderful compile-time checking we did on Foo has
> just been blown to pieces.

Well, if Damian's suggestions for strict classes in perl 5+i becomes
anything more than fiction then that eval will throw an exception.

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Piers Cawley
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