Re: AsForm and accessor names

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Peter Speltz wrote:
> Actually its not  so values can be returned for objects. Its so the _to_***
> methods can be called by yor model classes , period. Your model classes are the
> ones that call these methods within AsForm and if they are not exported, you'll
> get a method not found error.

I agree that they cause errors if they're not exported but that's easy 
to fix. IMHO, if they start with an underscore, they're intended to be 
private. If that's the case they don't need to be methods, they can just 
be functions and changing the calls from, for example:

     return $self->_to_textarea($field, $accessor)

to this:

     return _to_textarea($self, $field, $accessor)

eliminates the method not found problem and allows them to be made more 
nearly private (i.e no need to export them).

Cheers, Dave