Re: Class::Data::Inheritable and persistence.

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On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 09:44:29AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:59:15PM -0400, Vince Veselosky wrote:
> > I suppose it is fine, as long as none of the data is meant to be changed 
> > at run time. 
> 
> Changing class data at runtime will have lots of strange effects
> regardless of your environment. That's why its class data and not
> instance data.

Class data just means its common to all objects of the class.  There's
nothing inherent to class data that it can't change at run time. [1]
Unless you do something silly like copy class data into each object, it
should be perfectly safe to change class data.


[1] I'm speaking in the general sense here.  There's lots of application
specific reasons why you shouldn't change class data, but there's also
why you wouldn't change object data.

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