Yes, you're correct. I used a rotten example. Here's a clearer example. A corporate customer is assigned to a company, which has an office which has a manager.
my $manager = $customer->company->office->manager;
Later on, we realize that this is a bad class heirarchy and the customer should belong to an office and the company is superflous to this, but we've hardcoded a chain of method calls and this makes life difficult. What if we had done this:
sub Customer::manager {
my $self = shift;
return $self->{delegates}{company}->manager;
}
sub Company::manager {
my $self = shift;
return $self->{delegates}{office}->manager;
}
sub Office::manager {
my $self = shift;
return $self->{delegates}{manager};
}
Now the fix is easy, when we want to drop the Company class reference in the Customer object.
sub Customer::manager {
my $self = shift;
# return $self->{delegates}{company}->manager
return $self->{delegates}{office}->manager;
}
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