[Catalyst] Alternatives to Catalyst ?

[Dermot]

On 26 April 2010 12:02, Ovid <publiustemp-catalyst at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Dermot <paikkos at googlemail.com>
>
>
>> Why wouldn't you, as you write, use the the fastest access methods
>> available? Surely you'd want to develop habits that will a) provide
>> better performance and b) as mentioned below avoid the thorny
>> side-effects of req->params().  This isn't a matter of premature
>> optimisation but simply establishing good practise.

> Because if you are working with, say, 10 people on a team, and you will have everyone merrily doing direct hash accesses, sooner or later, someone's going to fuck it up and something will break in a spectacular > fashion.

I take your point even though I am not in a team.

> This is a very common trap that many developers (even experienced ones) get caught up in.  Let's make *everything* faster and our app is faster.  A month of optimisation could easily result in no benefits because what developers think is slow rarely matches what *is* slow unless the developers have carefully profiled their application.
>
> The problem, as has been pointed out, is that ENCAPSULATION is so terribly, terribly important -- and almost always more important that micro-optimisation -- that throwing away the known, constant benefits of encapsulation for unknown, occasional benefits of micro-optimisation would be a very, very bad idea for the community in general.  It might be OK for you, but it's not OK for me.  Without encapsulation, it's much harder to trust the correctness of my app.

I don't want to break encapsulation and that was the point of the
question. Toby mentioned req->params->{} and that will be the method
I'll stick with. I simply want to try and use the methods that will
provide the most dividends and for that to become habitual.

Thanx,
Dp.