Re: protected.pm (more Class::Fields)

["Matthias Urlichs" <smurf@noris.de>]

Hi,

Sam Tregar:
> Basically: why doesn't Bar->new() somehow magically call Foo->new() before
> it runs its code?
>
Because we have multiple inheritance and it's not always clear which
new() to call, if any. Because Foo->new() might require different 
arguments than Bar->new(). Because it would 

>  I mean, what does inheritence mean if it doesn't mean
> that you can "cast" a Bar into a Foo with no problems?
> 
Inheritance doesn't work for directly accessing data objects in Perl,
simply because Perl has more than one kind of object.

If you want it to, create a bunch of accessor functions.

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