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Roles are not a silver bullet (Score:1)
Don't be fooled, over use of roles is just as bad as over use of MI.
I worry that perhaps your a little too blinded by the shiney right now. Now, it seems the BBC system your working on was full of MI, so in this case, yes it probably makes a lot of sense to go heavily with the roles. And DBIx::Class is also uses MI very heavily and the planned Mooseification of it involves converting much of that to roles. But there are some things that fit really nicely into the inheritance model and those things really
Re:Roles are not a silver bullet (Score:2)
Thanks. I think that gives some great perspective on this. You had previously mentioned that overuse of roles was bad and I never asked you to follow up on your comment. I'll reread that paper (I read it years ago before I really was familiar with traits) and hopefully I'll have a better perspective now.
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