On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote:

> I'm totally against the use of AUTOLOAD. I must admit I thought it was
> cute seeing it used in Damian Conway's book to generate accessors on the
> fly, but really, all it's doing is saving a tiny bit of typing. P5EE is
> about the long term, not saving the initial module developers 5 minutes
> worth of effort in typing. And AUTOLOAD really is a maintainence disaster
> (and again, doesn't really work with OO).

I second this sentiment.  Plus if you want to just save the typing for
simple accessors, its quite easy to create these at compile time via a bit
of code in a BEGIN block.


-dave

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