Re: [mplspm]: Picking up the ball

[John Peacock]

Dave Rolsky wrote:

- configurability with localizable variables

If you're talking about the stuff in Class::Date like
$Class::Date::RANGE_CHECK, I _really_ dislike this interface.  This sort
of stuff should be settable on a per-class and per-object basis, not by
exposing global variables.

See "Translucent Attributes" in perltootc as a very nice way to handle this sort of thing:

DateTime->SomeAttribute = "fish"; # all objects have it
my $date = new DateTime "Today";
$date->SomeAttribute = "veggies"; # but objects can override, too

John

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