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Postings from September 2000
At 9:08 -0700 2000.09.18, Nathan Wiger wrote: >Chris Nandor wrote: >> >> >just assume "All Perl core functions should return objects", and hence >> >the reason I wrote RFC 73. ;-) >> >> And it would make me stop using Perl faster than your object method could >> be resolved. > >Is your concern one of? > > 1. Speed > > 2. Bloat > > 3. Excess burden on the programmer > > 4. Required knowledge of OO to complete simple scripts Yes. >If it's any or all of these, I'm *with you*. I think OO should be >transparent, under the hood, you don't have to know it's there. See RFC >159 and RFC 73 for fairly good explanations of this. I think it shouldn't exist in core functions. -- Chris Nandor pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network pudge@osdn.com http://osdn.com/