Yes, it does. If you're within an object and you're doing 2- and 3-deep lookups into $self, you're programming horribly. It's mean, but true.

Even within an object, you should be using your accessors. In addition, using objects would allow you to abstract out some of the parts of this ADT. For example, dimmesdale has this concept of a "measurement". That should be abstracted out to some other object. Now, you deal with anything in that measurement through that API. This actually solves his initial problem.

Plus, I suspect that he's working with test subject data, from the little he posted. There are usually hundreds of measurements for a given test subject. So, he has a List of Measurements within a TestSubject, all with appropriate accessors. The DB-access methods are now a piece of cake. The display methods are a piece of cake.

I'm not always "OO rulez" or whatever. But, if the shoe fits ...

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In reply to Re: Re: Help with ADT by dragonchild
in thread Help with ADT by dimmesdale

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