Re: [MacPerl] Perl app framework (Using ' instead of :: ...)

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 1.55 -0500 2000.03.10, Joshua Juran wrote:
>Right.  But to be pedantic, it's not the access to powerful functions /per
>se/ that's dangerous, but the unfiltered interface to them.

I somewhat disagree.  First, MacPerl's toolbox modules are not entirely
stable.  There are bugs.  So this is the first problem.  Second, even a
filtered interface, without background inteligence, can be dangerous.  If I
call MacWindow->new, I can still pass it bad arguments.  The danger is
reduced, but not eliminated.


>I just had a different idea:  Instead of putting an application framework
>into MacPerl, how about putting MacPerl into an application framework?  I
>just happen to have one, and it's open source...  Here's how this would
>work:  The app framework would have an embedded Perl interpreter, somehow
>modified to provide an interface to the added functions.  Then some modules
>would wrap around that, providing an object layer.

This sounds interesting ... in case you missed it before, Matthias is
working on the next version of MacPerl (based on 5.6, which, for Unix, just
entered the release candidate stage) and it may very well include a perl
shared library which will ease embedding tasks, I believe.  So you may want
to wait and see how that pans out (or volunteer to help him).

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