Re: Murdering @ISA considered cruel and unusual

2000-09-29 Thread Piers Cawley
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:40:04PM -0400, John Porter wrote: Tom Christiansen wrote: Perl's use of @ISA is beautiful. use base is, or can be, pretty silly -- think pseudohashes, just for one. I suppose you diddle @INC directly, Tom,

Re: Murdering @ISA considered cruel and unusual

2000-09-28 Thread Piers Cawley
Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I strongly agree with the opinion that we should try and get away from special variables and switches in favor of functions and pragmas. Witness 'use base' instead of '@ISA', 'use warnings', and so on. Huh? Why??? Perl's use of @ISA is

Re: Murdering @ISA considered cruel and unusual

2000-09-28 Thread Nathan Wiger
Piers Cawley wrote: I strongly agree with the opinion that we should try and get away from special variables and switches in favor of functions and pragmas. Witness 'use base' instead of '@ISA', 'use warnings', and so on. Huh? Why??? Perl's use of @ISA is beautiful. It's an example

Re: Murdering @ISA considered cruel and unusual

2000-09-28 Thread John Porter
Tom Christiansen wrote: Perl's use of @ISA is beautiful. use base is, or can be, pretty silly -- think pseudohashes, just for one. I suppose you diddle @INC directly, Tom, instead of use'ing lib? -- John Porter

Re: Murdering @ISA considered cruel and unusual

2000-09-28 Thread Simon Cozens
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:40:04PM -0400, John Porter wrote: Tom Christiansen wrote: Perl's use of @ISA is beautiful. use base is, or can be, pretty silly -- think pseudohashes, just for one. I suppose you diddle @INC directly, Tom, instead of use'ing lib? I call "non sequitur"!