>>>>> "David" == David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> It's entirely possible to write your subroutines so that they'll work David> just fine as either functions *or* class methods *or* instance methods. David> The code is a bit ghastly though, and I don't recommend it. In fact, David> I'm taking that particular breed of insanity out of one of my modules David> that is on the CPAN. Thankfully, I never documented that they could be David> called as functions, and so I don't feel that I shuold care if their David> removal breaks anything :-) Even if you fix yours, CGI.pm will live on as a public example of how twisted code can get over the years. :) See the horrors of &self_or_default, but only when properly prepared to flush your mind later. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
