Re^3: use fields; # damnit

Adrianh, I don't understand what you mean by "we have to control the base-class." I thought the fields pragma played well with inheritance. Could you give a concrete example where this would be a problem?

ps, I just posted a followup to this thread at Should I use Fields, InsideOuts, or Properties?.

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Re^4: use fields; # damnit by adrianh (Chancellor) on Jul 06, 2005 at 12:11 UTC
Adrianh, I don't understand what you mean by "we have to control the base-class." I thought the fields pragma played well with inheritance. Could you give a concrete example where this would be a problem? The fields pragma only plays well with classes that have also been built with the fields pragma. If I want to subclass a class that's based around a blessed hashref or coderef then I'm out of luck. Since I often code with classes than I do not control (e.g. classes from CPAN) that are not implemented with pseudohashes I can't use the fields pragma with them. Make sense?	[reply]
Re^4: use fields; # damnit by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Jul 06, 2005 at 12:18 UTC
OK, I get it. Thanks.	[reply]