Re: [PATCH] add bidi support

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

muppet said:
> 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 (...);

i don't own it, but i've looked at it in the book stores several times. its
the book i really wish i had a couple years about, but now half of it is old
hat. it talks about all of these sort of things.

Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules:
    http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/

-rm