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Re: Re: Re (tilly) 2: Paradigm Shift - Dual Use Constructors

by Matts (Deacon)
on Feb 20, 2002 at 08:01 UTC ( [id://146519]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: Paradigm Shift - Dual Use Constructors
in thread Paradigm Shift - Don't use strict

When I call GA::Entity->new() it returns a randomly generated solution. When I call $ga_entity->new() it produces a randomly mutated version of $ga_entity, and when I call $ga_entity->new($other_ga_entity) it returns a cross of the two. I thought long and hard if I wanted this type of behaviour and experimented with a number of alternatives before deciding I was happy with this approach. But of course merlyn would mark me down bigtime without considering why I had done it, and what my reasons were.

I fail to see how someone would mark you down on this, because you wouldn't have the traditional my $class = ref($proto) || $proto, you would have something much more complex wrapped around:

if (ref($proto)) { if (ref($_[0])) { cross polinate } else { mutate } } else { construct new }
Which would look far more reasonable in a code review, and would almost inevitably have to be documented. So I don't buy your argument.

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Re: Re: Re: Re (tilly) 2: Paradigm Shift - Dual Use Constructors
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Feb 20, 2002 at 09:59 UTC
    Hmm. Interesting angle. But ircc (its on my home computer) the code went more like
    sub new { my $proto=shift; my $class=$proto || ref $proto; my $self=bless {},$class; if ($class eq $proto) { #class call $self->init_rand(); } elsif (@_) { $self->init_cross($proto,shift); } else { $self->init_mutate($proto); } return $self }
    So the dreaded line was/is present. But you are correct I did/would comment this.

    Yves / DeMerphq
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    When to use Prototypes?

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