Re: [RFC][PATCH] Small enhancement for Glib::Object::Subclass

[Carl Nygard <cjnygard fast net>]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:32, Ross McFarland wrote:
> Jan Hudec said:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > When subclassing a widget, it's probably not uncommon that setting or
> > getting at least one property needs to be treated specialy, but for some
> > other properties the default behaviour (just storing it in the hash) is
> > ok. Or perhaps even for the special property get can do with the default
> > implementation. Therefore I suggest following enhancement for the
> > default SET_PROPERTY/GET_PROPERTY methods:

<look ma, no code>  I had implemented something similar, via the
AUTOLOAD function.  If I had a hash member name, I could just use
$obj->MEMBER($value) or $obj->MEMBER() to set/get the attribute.  If I
needed to overload for something special, all I had to do is implement
the 'sub MEMBER {...}' in the proper class.

That even worked well when stuff got deprecated, and I wanted to supply
compatibility functions to use new members appropriately.

If I'm not mistaken, then $self->SUPER::MEMBER() will eventually find
the AUTOLOAD, so it was pretty seamless. 

<look ma, no code/>