RE: Inflating and deflating

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From: Perrin Harkins Sent: 14 February 2005 20:19
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> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 12:40 +0000, Addison, Mark wrote:
> > > Don't you get a warning when you redefine that sub?  They are both
> > being put into the same namespace.
> >=20
> > No, Class::Accessor sorts it. It installs the method under both
names
> > (e.g. foo and _foo_accessor) but only if that name hasn't already be
> > used (ie by your own sub).
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> I did a quick test on one of my classes, and I'm not getting=20
> the warning
> I thought I would, but I don't really understand why not.
> Class::Accessor looks like it defines the methods *before* your own
> methods, since it happens when you call set_up_table() or list the
> columns.  I must be missing something here.

Perl compiles the code first, setting up the symbol table entries,
like your methods, before running the package code, like=20
set_up_table. That way the subs have already been defined when
Class::Accessor does its thing.

> It's not really that important though, since there a number of
> techniques that seem to work for this.

Indeed, it is perl after all ;-)
Hmmm, probably worth a wiki node though...

mark
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