Re: How do I retrieve the 'type' of an object

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* muppet <scott asofyet org> [2004-06-07 18:07]:
> > No, it doesn't. You should simply stick your methods in the
> > existing base class package. (Ruby calls it mixins and in
> > Perl6 we will be doing that routinely.)
>
> ugh!  since when is this considered to be a good idea?  i've
> always thought of it as a quick and dirty way to get something
> to work, but not something you want to use for Real Solutions.

Ever since we found out that inheritance as the only form of
polymorphism is rather suboptimal. :-) To be fair, Perl5 doesn't
really provide the means to do it really right, but then, Perl5
OO, flexible as it may be, is pretty awful anyway.

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