Re^3: RFC: Alter - Perl extension for Alter Ego Objects

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It is really common for interesting objects to compile their own accessors. If you require that and break on things compiled in the "wrong" class, much of CPAN is in a world of hurt if applied to your code.

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Re^4: RFC: Alter - Perl extension for Alter Ego Objects by Anno (Deacon) on Jul 02, 2007 at 15:39 UTC
I don't understand. An object from a given class (which doesn't know about alter egos) will continue to access the object body (if that's what it does) with no interference. If an Alter-based class initializes and uses that object, a corona of alter egos will be attached for the Alter-based class(es) to use. The original class will know nothing about that and continue doing what it did all along. Where's the problem? Anno Update: I'm not trying to make old code use the alter technique, that's the next stage :)	[reply]

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Re^4: RFC: Alter - Perl extension for Alter Ego Objects
by Anno (Deacon) on Jul 02, 2007 at 15:39 UTC

An object from a given class (which doesn't know about alter egos) will continue to access the object body (if that's what it does) with no interference. If an Alter-based class initializes and uses that object, a corona of alter egos will be attached for the Alter-based class(es) to use. The original class will know nothing about that and continue doing what it did all along.

Where's the problem?

Anno

Update: I'm not trying to make old code use the alter technique, that's the next stage :)

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