How about making CGI.pm a subclass of $r? (optionally of course, by dynamically changing @ISA), so instead of returning $q it'll return $r, after re-blessing it.
Sounds interesting. What would be the advantage of that?
The advantage is that
- you don't have to keep around two instances: $r and $q.
- assuming that CGI.pm-specific code is not used one can transparently switch between Apache::Request and CGI.pm, by just changing:
$r = Apache::Request->new($r); $r = CGI->new($r);
And of course Apache::Request is a subclass of Apache ($r) and it works pretty well.
In the future I can see someone extending Apache::Request to handle CGI.pm's HTML generation in C, so the two could be replace each other.
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