I've had a play with C::R. While you can do really neat stuff with it, the problem is that others can do what they consider to be really neat stuff with it.

This is the same problem that's had with operator overloading in C++. Take the relatively innocuous statement i = j + k;. Do you know what's going on? Really? What would happen if I told you what classes i, j, and k were. Does that help? Oh, it doesn't?

99% of Perl coders doesn't understand basic list, scalar, and void contexts. Now, you're going to throw in a gazillion other contexts? Maybe not such a good idea.

Oh, and it imposes a 2-4x runtime overhead. (Note - I make this point last for a reason.)

My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

In reply to Re^2: Method Chaining and Accessors by dragonchild
in thread Method Chaining and Accessors by linenoise

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