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• cultural solutions (Score:1)

  by rjbs (4671)

  Inside-out objects are really neat and cool. That's why I don't think I will use them.
  
  There are definite benefits, like improved encapsulation, but I don't need a shotgun -- especially one that has lots of overhead costs. In Perl, avoiding tight coupling can be reduced to a cultural problem, in my experience.
  
  Sometimes, I use a pattern like this:
  
      $object->{__PACKAGE__}{attr} = $value;
  
  Now the object's guts are well divided into areas of authority. If you, Subclass::Happy start screwing aro

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  rjbs
  • Re:cultural solutions (Score:2)

    by TeeJay (2309) on 2007.11.27 5:00 (#59185) Homepage Journal

    Agreed totally - it's trivial to avoid the problems that Object::Std and O::IO try to solve without all the extra nonsense, what's more you can still use a sensible class framework.
    
    Not once in the decade I've been writing Perl have I needed O::IO or it's ilk.

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