On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 11:22:05PM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 21:32:33 -0400 Rocco Caputo wrote: > +------------------ > | Good morning. > | > | I am pleased to announce that POE's mythical object system has the > | beginnings of a practical design and specification. As a POE user, > | you may be directly affected by the course of its development. > | Therefore I invite you to review and contribute to the design at > | http://poe.perl.org/?POE_RFCs/Object_System before it solidifies. > | > | Thank you. > +------------------ > > Some comments: I've read both the current status of the RFC and also most > of the comments on the list today. Much of the discussion is over my head > or just plain opaque. Still I have a few comments to make in general. > > First: Are you abandoning plain perl? Will POE become a preprocessor > that chews on both code and pod/markup segments to build the final > system? I'm not sure I like that idea much. I enjoy a clean > separation between doc and code. Even when they are intermixed in the same > file.
Note that the statements about the component's properties are rather code than docs. They have or should have well-defined semantics and are to be treated like class declarations. Traditional docs are often ambiguous, our parts are not. They just aren't Perl. Having these declarations together with some describing text will give users a good design overview of the component. torvald
