On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 09:05:07 +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote: > Of course, we could use the Email::Abstract interface as a base- > class to all email related modules, but you know that this wouldn't > work for the Perl community...
Actually I'd like to expand on this. There are two problem with your solution, that are not community related. The first is that this is no different from using the role Email::Abstract or whatever it'll be in the classes. Roles can be abstract, too. The second is the issue i raised though - when It's too difficult to put together two (or more) abstract roles (or base classes) in the same class, you may declare how to do all of them in a conflicting way. That is you can be both Email::Abstract and Email::Abstract::Better, even though they define different interfaces by simply declaring that you cannot be both of them at the same time, and whoever is invoking the methods must explicitly say which behavior it prefers. -- Yuval Kogman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://nothingmuch.woobling.org 0xEBD27418
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