At 06:52 PM 2/23/04, Rocco Caputo wrote:
So someone unclear on the $_[KERNEL] concept needed some help with it on IRC. They wanted to call a function that set a delay in the current session, but they didn't understand that $_[KERNEL] is a reference to an object (a singleton) and didn't magically appear in called subroutines.
Singleton is an implementation detail. Hide it behind a provider interface and no-one need know the cardinality. ($_[KERNEL] is a fine, perl-concise way to do this, BTW).
I agree, programmers using POE likely need to understand a simple slice anyways.
TW
PS Wherezat [POE] tag on the subject line?? :>
Not sure I understand this need? Filter on To:/Cc: adding 5 characters to the subject line seems silly...
As for the earlier conversation about the dev stuff crowding the list, I actually like it, and agree with whomever posted that they wouldn't normally read it as much since it seems to happen on IRC. This list is very low traffic otherwise and it may help to make things seem less dead. Having said that, it doesn't much matter to me, I will subscribe to both/multiple anyways.
Though I was pleasantly surprised to see that the traffic had picked up, just wished I could have found time to read it when it was hot.
On the testing reform note (and this may be tangential) are there plans or would its development help users test hand written POE stuff? I am currently developing major test suites for an application that uses POE as its framework but haven't quite figured out (haven't researched much either) how to test objects that wrap a session, once I am finished with the non-POE parts I intend to look further into this issue.
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