[Dbix-class] RFC: Possibly cleaner output for DBIC::Schema::Loader dumps

[Matt S Trout]

Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote:
> On 7/21/06, A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote:
>> As opposed to the bug reports or puzzled questions when someone
>> says `$foo{ __PACKAGE__ } = $bar` and wonders why it didn't do
>> what they expected.
> 
> I wasn't aware of this one. Nasty.
> 
> This makes me feel I'm really heading towards the right way when I try
> to avoid having explicit __PACKAGE__ lying around my code. Besides
> making the code look better. ;-)
> 
> It's a weird thing no one has came up with a better way to handle this
> __PACKAGE__ thing before. Even a constant named PACKAGE (or CLASS or
> SELF) would probably be better.

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