Re: [PATCH] add bidi support

["muppet" <scott asofyet org>]

Thierry Vignaud said:
> "Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com> writes:
>
> > the last two needed to take (and ignore) class names.
>
> so i'll to reverse my s/(Gtk2::Widget)->(\w*direction)/\1::\2/ since
> xs tree follow inline tree regarding this issue :-(

any function which needs to be called with a fully-qualified Package::name()
syntax instead of the Package->name() syntax is an implementation bug in the
bindings.

rationale: the former syntax does not allow client code to use @ISA to
override and extend class methods, whereas the latter does.

e.g.:

  package FreakyStuff;

  our @ISA = qw/ Gtk2::Widget /;

  sub set_text_direction {
          # do other stuff, like log the change or
          # make changes in child libraries
          shift->SUPER::set_text_direction (@_);
  }

  package main;

  FreakyStuff->set_text_direction (...);


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