Re: Object Oriented PODs

2003-02-21 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Sean M. Burke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030221 01:20]: At 2/19/2003 01:46 PM +0100, Mark Overmeer wrote: [...]On this moment, I am owner of seven CPAN modules. The largest is Mail::Box, which has about 90 packages, each describing one class: it is object-oriented Perl. [...]Conclusion: POD is

Re: Object Oriented PODs

2003-02-21 Thread Casey West
It was Friday, February 21, 2003 when Mark Overmeer took the soap box, saying: : Well, only the see you a use for yourself question of my e-mail is : answered. Apparently not for your code. What remains is that I see a : good use for myself (and many other OO modules). So the remaining :

Re: Object Oriented PODs

2003-02-21 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Casey West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030221 14:11]: It was Friday, February 21, 2003 when Mark Overmeer took the soap box, saying: : Well, only the see you a use for yourself question of my e-mail is : answered. Apparently not for your code. What remains is that I see a : good use for myself

Re: Object Oriented PODs

2003-02-21 Thread Johan Vromans
Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What you say is undermined by one word: 90. Even with 2 classes it would be advanteous to have the PODs inherit just like the classes. -- Johan

Re: Object Oriented PODs

2003-02-21 Thread Mark Overmeer
* Sean M. Burke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030221 20:19]: I agree; but I can't quite picture a system that would do the right thing with around methods -- i.e., when a subclass do_whatever overrides do_whatever, but then calls SUPER::do_whatever. Oh, that's much simpler than you think. When a

Re: Object Oriented PODs

2003-02-20 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 2/19/2003 01:46 PM +0100, Mark Overmeer wrote: What does bother me is that POD is visual markup instead of logical markup; the difference between HTML's I and EM, B and STRONG It is a common notion (which you may or may not be demonstrating here) that semanticity is binary: either a markup

Re: Object Oriented PODs

2003-02-20 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 2/19/2003 01:46 PM +0100, Mark Overmeer wrote: [...]On this moment, I am owner of seven CPAN modules. The largest is Mail::Box, which has about 90 packages, each describing one class: it is object-oriented Perl. [...]Conclusion: POD is not sufficient to produce documentation for OO

Re: Object Oriented PODs

2003-02-20 Thread Matthew O. Persico
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:50:29 -0900, Sean M. Burke wrote: At 2/19/2003 01:46 PM +0100, Mark Overmeer wrote: What does bother me is that POD is visual markup instead of logical markup; the difference between HTML's  I and EM, B and STRONG It is a common notion (which you may or may not be