On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 03:22:25PM -0600, Ken Williams wrote:
> Because he doesn't have methods, he has functions. They're expecting
> one argument, the hash ref, not an additional $self or $class argument
> at the beginning. In order to use this solution he'd have to retool
> his entire code base of functions to make them methods instead.
It's entirely possible to write your subroutines so that they'll work
just fine as either functions *or* class methods *or* instance methods.
The code is a bit ghastly though, and I don't recommend it. In fact,
I'm taking that particular breed of insanity out of one of my modules
that is on the CPAN. Thankfully, I never documented that they could be
called as functions, and so I don't feel that I shuold care if their
removal breaks anything :-)
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