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 /*================== www.urth.org We await the New Sun ==================*/
