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

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Tony Bowden wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 06:59:15PM -0400, Vince Veselosky wrote:
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>>I suppose it is fine, as long as none of the data is meant to be changed 
>>at run time. 
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>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.
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>>I only noticed it because I was storing a Logger type object in a class 
>>property (so that my entire class hierarchy could use a uniform logging 
>>interface), and I got strange behavior because the object persisted.
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>Because the object persisted, or because the class persisted?
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Both, but the object persisting was the problem. Moral to the story: 
don't do that. Lesson learned on my part, sorry to bug you about it. :)

-Vince