On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 12:05:44PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> JNP> What is wrong with this:
>
> JNP> $watcher->{data} = ...; #?
>
> that breaks the OO rules. one shoudl never assume knowledge about the
> internal stucture of an object. there should be a method/attribute for that.
But you can't access the internal structure of a watcher except via
methods. The hash part is entirely empty.
> JNP> Yah, that's still a problem.
>
> just add another method/attribute like you did with timeput_cb. no logic
> behind it just something to hold private data. this makes subclassing
> very easy.
You can also add methods with a prefix. For example,
package Event::Watcher;
sub uri_data { ... }
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