[Catalyst] Model Instances vs. Model Classes - Round 2

[Alejandro Imass]

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Benjamin Hitz <hitz at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> Would like to see that.  Some of us don't follow all this abstract computer science jargon that well.
>

Granted, after re-reading my posts _I_ don't even understand them

> Also - can you comment on the following:
>
> WARNING WARNING WARNING
>
> Using this module is somewhat of a hack. Changing the state of your objects on every request is a pretty braindead way of doing OO. If you want your application to be brain-live, then you should use Catalyst::Component::InstancePerContext.
>
> (appears in POD for Catalyst::Component::ACCEPT_CONTEXT - which I was reviewing because of your email... apparently I must have read this once and told my self "Never do this")
>

Ok. Why don't we start with a simple and plain definition of what is
meant by Class "Type" in Catalyst jargon:

- class
- instance


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Alex