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• innovative (Score:1)

  by markjugg (792)

  Innovative. Thanks for sharing this.
  
  I wish for customizing the name of "$self", but this is a nice start, and a welcome competitor to "self.pm", which I also liked it was a little weird because it was "self", not "$self", and didn't actually allow you to "shift" off $self through the system, just reference it.
  
  Wow, that was a run-on sentence.
  
        Mark
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by audreyt (6654)

    Mark: You just inspired me to write selfvars.pm, now on CPAN. :-)
    • Re: (Score:2)

      by schwern (1528)

      Clever, but performance is awful. Tied variables. :(
      
      Then again, I've found some fascinating bugs in Method::Signatures.
      
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by audreyt (6654)

        True, but although there is technically a 10-fold difference between 1191563/s vs 114688/s per lookup, in practice I wonder how it's going to matter -- even if it's put in a loop that's going to look up $self more than 100000 times, the difference will still be less than one second. :-)
        • Re:innovative (Score:2)

          by schwern (1528) on 2007.12.28 20:04 (#59812) Homepage Journal

          $self gets used an awful lot. It's one of those things that adds a drag to every single aspect of your code. As much as we'd like to, you can't always ignore the constant part of big-O.

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