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

[Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:54:48AM -0500, london@pixelmagic.com wrote:
> Is protected.pm a proposed solution to 
> "Solving the Data Inheritance Problem"
> item in the Perl Cookbook?
> 
> to quote:
> "How can you safely carve out your own namespace in 
> the object hash without trampling on any ancestors?"
> 
> if not, could someone explain it in a short and
> sweet version?

Not exactly.  fields/base.pm and pseudo-hashes is trying to solve that
problem (and it didn't quite get it).  protected.pm is an addition to
that.

Do you understand how pseudo-hashes work and what fields.pm and
base.pm do?  (Anyone else, pipe up if you need a refresher.)

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Michael G Schwern                                           schwern@pobox.com
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