On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 10:47:43PM -0500, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "NI" == Nick Ing-Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> NI> Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> It isn't too bad. Only the Event package has a custom AUTOLOAD
> >> function. It's purpose is to magically make:
> >>
> >> my $w = Event->watcher_type(...);
> >>
> >> Short hand for:
> >>
> >> require Event::watcher_type;
> >> my $w = Event::watcher_type->new(...);
> >>
> >> Hm. Maybe that should be in the documentation somewhere...
>
> NI> Ick - you did that too. If I had my time over again I would not
> NI> have done that in Tk - the constructor idea is fine, but
> NI> the implcit require is a pain. In particular you don't discover
> NI> that your app has not been correctly B::* compiled till
> NI> you try and run it and hit the execution pattern that needs the require.
I think Joshua inherited that. No I wonder where the idea came from :-)
Graham.
