Re: Defaults in flags()

On Aug 9, 2006, at 11:28, Marius Feraru wrote:

> Ah (good morning to myself) - now I see your point: there is a  
> _public_
> flag() method (and custom flags functionality, OFC).

Exactly. I'm using it in a subclass (essentially) of component, so  
I'd rather use the public interface than reach into the flags hash  
directly or call a private method.

> Agree. But the current functionality of the "inherit" flag in one good
> old Mason feature that many of us (me included) would miss if it would
> cease to exist. ;-)

Yes, Hans explained the issue rather well (and yes, John is right wrt  
what I mean about hte use of the term "flags"—especially since there  
is a <%flags> block in Mason! But I had forgotten that it didn't  
specify only booleans, because Bricolage users actually use it to  
turn off inheritance:

<%flags>
$inherit => undef
</%flags>

So I was thinking of it as a boolean.

> Now, what would you prefer flag('inherit') to return?

I want it to return whatever the inherit flag is set to. In the above  
example, it would return undef. If it's not specified in a dhandler,  
I assume that it should return the parent.

Uh, but then maybe I could just call parent(), instead? Would it  
return undef when I have the inherit flag set to undef in the component?
Best,

David



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