Resources.pm author Franco Callan unreachable

2003-10-04 Thread Terrence Brannon
I have tried to contact the author of Resources.pm with some patches to make his release work with more recent versions of Perl, to no avail. I tried his CPAN-advertised email address as well as the one listed at his webpage and both bounced... my last email to him continues below -

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* James E Keenan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-04 23:19]: > So that's why I've been sending the "To:" copy to the OP or the > person to whom I'm directly replying or quoting most > frequently, and "Cc:"ing the list. But that means the "To:" > recipient gets 2 copies. Is this a case where business

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread James E Keenan
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:09:10 -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > > > P.S.  I'm not sure if the CC method of replying is automatic or > not, but I'm subscribed to the list, so I'm getting two copies of > everything. I wonder what is proper Usenet etiquette. In the business world, you direct the reply "To

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread James E Keenan
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 17:09:10 -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote: >[snip] > Sorry to get into so much detail, but the gist of it is that it is > a complex problem set which is simplified by providing a single > program interface for the manipulation of any entity.   Agreed. Get the interface to be the way y

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread Eric Wilhelm
> The following was supposedly scribed by > James E Keenan > on Saturday 04 October 2003 05:49 pm: >Eric's description seems to be more bringing code from the side rather than > from above/below, so that's why I'm inclined to advise an Exporter-approach > rather than an OO. We would probably have

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread James E Keenan
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 14:06:13 -0500, Mark Stosberg wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:34:14PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > >> >> .. that package Drawing is so huge that it's cumbersome to edit >> and you simply want to store some of its publicly callable >> methods in other packages.  If so, then

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread Eric Wilhelm
> The following was supposedly scribed by > Mark Stosberg > on Saturday 04 October 2003 02:06 pm: >While this is certainly more explicit, it also means that every time >you create or rename a shared routine, you have to declare and at least >two places. Perhaps being explicit is it's own reward. I

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread Mark Stosberg
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 02:34:14PM -0400, James E Keenan wrote: > > .. that package Drawing is so huge that it's cumbersome to edit and you simply want > to store some of its publicly callable methods in other packages. If so, then you > could simply import the methods from the "sub"-modules usi

Re: sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread James E Keenan
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003 10:59:14 -0500, Eric Wilhelm wrote: > I'm working on a module which will eventually be CAD::Drawing > Currently, it is named ::Drawing and > the package is declared as simply "Drawing". > > I've run into a wall with my original data structure and have seen > a much more flexible

sub-packages for object-oriented modules

2003-10-04 Thread Eric Wilhelm
Hi, I'm working on a module which will eventually be CAD::Drawing Currently, it is named ::Drawing and the package is declared as simply "Drawing". I've run into a wall with my original data structure and have seen a much more flexible and expandable way to do things, so I will be rebuilding t