[MTOS-dev] scorabe MT::Category

[Jay Allen]

On May 8, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Timothy Appnel wrote:
> What clean(er) alternate to you have in mind?

None actually.  It may have been another module that I was remembering  
is a big hack.  I was just wondering and knew you would know the answer.

>> 2) Is there a preferred OO method of achieving dynamic multiple
>> inheritance in Perl (where it CAN but need not (for everyone) inherit
>> from other classes) without using Sub::Install?
>
> Not sure what you are asking here. Do you mean appending a class name
> to the ISA array that contains the list of  superclasses? I suppose
> you could but that sounds even more dangerous then my proposal.

Well what I was wondering is is there a methodology/module that the  
pragmatic perl community (who celebrates multiple inheritance) and  
hard-core OO advocates (usually from other languages) have settled on  
as both OO and practical enough to satisfy both.  Or are we still  
bitterly divided?

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