Re: data() problems

On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:22:25PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 08:02:02AM -0400, Joshua Pritikin wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:39:07AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> > Sure, except that it is not easy to determine the correct package from
> > inside Event::Watcher::init().
> > 
> > I don't know how to fix this, but I can add a warning to complain about
> > 'data' in the constructor...
> 
> I think you are getting confused between private data and public data.
> 
> The code that Nick set was for private data in classes that inherit from
> a base class. This is to ensure that sub-classes do not destroy
> data used by the parent class.
> 
> Passing data in the contructor is public data, it is set by the user
> and not by a sub-class.
> 
> In otherwords there should be two methods. One for the user, say data(),
> and one for sub-classes that want to ensure data integrity, say private_data()

Heh, I was pondering this all day.

Shall I add a note in Event.pod mentioning that data() is meant only for
implementors of event watchers?

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