On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Clamp wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:14:21PM +0100, Shevek wrote:
> > But if this were the case (for a general system of this type), then the
> > type of storage now becomes a matter for the code, rather than just a
> > configuration variable, and
> >
> > my $obj = Factory->new($type, ...)
> >
> > becomes in every piece of code:
> >
> > my $obj;
> > if ($type eq 'a') {
> > $obj = Factory->a(...);
> > }
> > elsif ($type eq 'b') {
> > $obj = Factory->b(...);
> > }
>
> Or, if you're familiar with the fun of perls OO it remains the much
> more similar:
>
> my $obj = Factory->$type(...);
But now you are allowing configuration variables to modify actual code,
whereas normally for security reasons one would prefer to keep code and
data strictly separate. I still prefer the DBI method.
S.
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