"If you're OO, why are you exporting?"

I export the $errstr (and/or an alter-ego errstr() function) on demand. For no other reason than to give the user something to look for when new() fails. Maybe this is a sign I haven't properly thought through the OO creation/use.

I've been crawling the fence for some time on the OO issue.

Should I do so much in new() or should I simply create the object and make another method (say "connect") to do the rest of the work? Seems rather pointless to make 2 steps out of one. On the other hand, if someone were to use this in a long running script, they may want to get updates of the modem status. In which case the only option is to "new()" again, which doesn't quite seem right either. Or maybe the real answer is to break new into "new()" and "connect()" with a fall through from new -> connect.

Should I make a non-OO interface available? No reason why it can't swing both ways. The methods can be teased into using either the blessed object or a static variable. Especially if I break up new.

In reply to Re^2: Preparing for my first CPAN submission by ruzam
in thread Preparing for my first CPAN submission by ruzam

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