Re: AUTOLOAD method

On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Vadim O. Ustiansky wrote:

> I would like Mason to have the possibility to handle non-existent
> methods in a way, similar to perl's AUTOLOAD. In particular one
> may want to be able to write components like the following:
>
>   ...
> % $m->comp('SELF:foo');
> % $m->comp('SELF:bar');
>   ...
> <%method AUTOLOAD>
> <%perl>
>   my $method_name = $m->autoload();
>   if($method_name eq 'foo'){
>     # handle call SELF:foo
>   }elsif($method_name eq 'bar'){
>     # handle call SELF:bar
>   }
> </%perl>
> </%method>
>
> The attached patch seems to implement this feature.
>
> I would like to here your opinion on this topic.

I'm not really a big fan of Perl's AUTOLOAD, so I don't really like this
idea.

Of course, with Perl itself, I usually just generate code during compile
time, with something like this:

 foreach my $f (@fields)
 {
     *{$f} = sub { $_[0]->{$f} }
 }

You can't really do that so easily with Mason, I guess.


-dave

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