On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> 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.
> >
>
> Well not everywhere. For some of the stuff I have been doing it saves
> you from having to remember to change things when you add new columns
> to a database table for instance.
Even so, P5EE is at the infrastructure level, not the application level.
We should use best practices, and I don't think AUTOLOAD fits into best
practices.
Look, we need some sort of voting procedure here, otherwise we're going to
go back and forth with issues like this. What scares me is we have at the
moment a situation similar to the Perl 6 process, whereby anyone can throw
ideas out. But we don't have a Larry, who we (well, most people) trust.
And we don't have an Apache-like meritocracy. So how do we make decisions?
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