Re: [wxperl-users] mixing positional and named parameters

[Mattia B. <mat...@li...>]

On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 02:24:07 -0700
Eric Wilhelm <scr...@gm...> wrote:

  Hi,

> I'm still not sure what I'm doing with the declarative syntax, but I'm 
> currently working on a module that will create constructors with 1-2 
> required parameters, followed by key => value pairs.  This is just a 
> dump of the autogenerated pod chunk which will accompany it.
> 
>   http://scratchcomputing.com/tmp/WxPerl-foo.html

  Looks fine to me, and I believe this is a very useful feature (I
wanted to do it myself).

> Let me know if there's anything glaringly wrong about that chunk of pod.
> 
> At the moment, the only classes that I'm mapping are the ones that match 
> newFull() in the XS source.  The code for this is at:
> 
> http://scratchcomputing.com/svn/WxPerl-Constructors/trunk/build/xs_proto_map

  WxPerl::TreeCtrl->new(
    $parent,
    id        => -1,
    pos       => Wx::wxDefaultPosition(),
    size      => Wx::wxDefaultSize(),
    style     => Wx::wxTR_HAS_BUTTONS(),
    validator => Wx::wxDefaultValidator(),
    name      => treeCtrl,
  );

  There are two things I do not like about this.

  The first is "WxPerl"; right name, wrong capitalization.  But this
might be my flawed sense of aesthetics...

  The second is: I suppose I will need to derive all my classes from
WxPerl::*.  Wouldn't it be better if Wx::Perl::Constructors added a
'create' or 'make' (or whatever) method to all wxPerl classes? For
example:

  use Wx::Perl::Constructors;

  Wx::TreeCtrl->create(
    $parent,
    id        => -1,
    pos       => Wx::wxDefaultPosition(),
    size      => Wx::wxDefaultSize(),
    style     => Wx::wxTR_HAS_BUTTONS(),
    validator => Wx::wxDefaultValidator(),
    name      => treeCtrl,
  );

  What do you think?

Regards
Mattia