Re: Simple-?? classes

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 17:39, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com> [2004-03-31 01:24]:
> > On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 10:02, Carl Nygard wrote:
> > > If SimpleList is moved to Simple::List, isn't it possible to
> > > use some perl magic to yank in the code from Simple::List and
> > > make it appear as Gtk2::SimpleList?  I vaguely recall some
> > > cookbook code or tutorial example that did this type of
> > > thing.
> >
> > most likely, although it would take being very careful.
>
> Not terribly, not even very. If $obj->isa('Gtk2::SimpleList')
> suffices, then it's child's play. Only if you insist on
> satisfying   ref($obj) == 'Gtk2::SimpleList'  do things get..
> interesting.

which is precisely what i was thinking of. basically i think it could be
done with a dummy type Gtk2::SimpleList something like

package Gtk2::SimpleList;

*new = *Gtk2::Simple::List::new;
...

but i haven't completely thought it through, which is why it isn't done.

-rm