On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 11:41:20 +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote:
Could we agree on the idea that CGI.pm should be split up?
No. I could agree that
CGI-somemethod(@args);
would do exactly the same as
CGI::somemethod(@args);
i.e. no difference between function calls and class methods,
On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 13:58:34 +0100, Hildo Biersma wrote:
Yikes. Class method calls should perform inheritance, subroutine calls
should not.
I agree with that.
Altering the language to make the two look the same is a bad
idea, because it breaks, fatally, as soon as the class supports more
than
"HB" == Hildo Biersma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
HB There's a reason people use objects - if only to give the user a handle
HB to wrap the module's state. Any module that supports both OO and
HB procedural usage is basically a singleton - only one instance exists at
HB any one time (at least in
