good enough reason not to use it then if you ask me ;)<br><br>Have only played with it but haven;t taken it seriously myself.<br><br>But, this does raise another question I have. There is plethora of modules that are to help Perl be more OO like and stricter .... which is cool, but are there any good de-facto standard modules that are used by the majority of people wishing to be more OO compliant.<br><br>For example, in the realms of MVC in Perl, Catalyst has become the de-facto std, DBIx::Class for ORM etc.<br><br>I'm currently on a mission to learn patterns and better techniques, thus searching CPAN for this type of stuff. But, the dates that these packages were created/last maintained get me thinking that they're either ULTRA stable or not used very much.<br><br>I know this is well OT but then this thread has gone waaaaaaaay off track from the original mail ......... which I find hilarious ... as I started it.<br><br>-Ants<br><br> <br><br><b><i>"A. Pagaltzis"
<pagaltzis@gmx.de></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> * Anthony Gardner <cyclewood_ltd@yahoo.co.uk> [2007-05-10 16:00]:<br>> Why not use Attribute::Protected to define private etc. methods<br><br>Because it does not actually prevent private methods in<br>subclasses from overriding ones in their superclasses, moves<br>error detection to compile time, adds overhead to every call,<br>and saddles you with yet another dependency.<br><br>Attribute::Protected turns subtle bugs into crashes, which is<br>a start when you have nothing better. But you do have something<br>better: using lexicals to store private methods *eliminates* the<br>problem entirely.<br><br>> Using <br>> <br>> my $my_method = sub {}<br>> <br>> doesn;t that have a drawback if you want to use it before it's<br>> been defined?<br><br>That’s what BEGIN blocks are for. (And they’re always
implicitly<br>there when loading a module.)<br><br>-- <br>*AUTOLOAD=*_;sub _{s/(.*)::(.*)/print$2,(",$\/"," ")[defined wantarray]/e;$1}<br>&Just->another->Perl->hack;<br>#Aristotle<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>List: Catalyst@lists.rawmode.org<br>Listinfo: http://lists.rawmode.org/mailman/listinfo/catalyst<br>Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/<br>Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/<br></cyclewood_ltd@yahoo.co.uk></blockquote><br><p> 
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