On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:20:04AM -0800, Michael Lazzaro wrote: > > On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 02:04 AM, Graham Barr wrote: > > If the function form of map/grep were to be removed, which has been > > suggested, > > and the <~ form maps to methods. How would you go about defining a > > utility > > module similar to List::Util that uses the same syntax as map/grep but > > without making the subs methods on the global ARRAY package ? > > If you want the method to be available everywhere,
But I don't > you probably > _should_ make it a method of the global Array class. Thats like trying to wite a whole perl5 application in main without any packages > More typically, > perhaps, you'd only be using your new method to operate on certain > arrays that you use, in which case you would make a new class for those > particular arrays, so your new method would work only on the specific > arrays you intended it to: Thats not always possible. Those Arrays may be passed to me from somewhere else, so I have no control over thier class. > I don't see any problem (other than maybe a philosophical objection) > with making them methods of Array, though, if they're valuable enough. > That certainly would seem the common Perl thing to do. No, namespaces were invented for a reason. Graham.
