Re: [mv] Wishlist, request for namespace

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting cfm@maine.com (cfm@maine.com):
> ******    message to minivend-users from cfm@maine.com     ******
> 
> 
> I'd like to put these on wishlist ;^)
> 
> 1)
> We've been building our custom minivend libraries in lib/Vend and
> now wish to move them out to /usr/lib/perl5/MV because we want to share
> them with other non-minivend scripts.  That's a bigger than minivend 
> issue, but we can risk it; I'm mostly concerned that minivend not claim
> that space.  With name change, maybe that is moot?
> 
> 2)
> What is most sensible way to do this:
> 
> [embed]
> my ($foo);
> $foo=new bar;
> 
> [/embed]
> 
> Other minivend stuff
> 
> [embed]
> 
> return $foo->blat;
> 
> [/embed]
> 
> Where [embed] tag is a fancy version of Mike's unsafe perl tag, eg
> it permits direct raw access to everything bypassing Safe.  What we
> want is for $foo to live for duration of that page, maybe the
> same scope as $CGI?  I think what we're looking for is another
> shortlived namespace that gets set up on a per page basis.  We don't 
> want it to go into Session.  Is that what Scratch does?  Am I making
> any sense?

I don't understand all of this. There is nothing at all stopping you
from:

    cp -ra /usr/local/minivend/lib/Vend /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl

and

UserTag embed hasEndTag
UserTag embed Routine <<EOR
use MV::foo;
use bar;
use MV::buzz;
use MV::baz;
sub {
	eval @_;
}
EOR

And there is no reason to use "my $foo" when you can say:

[embed]
	use vars qw/$foo/;
	$foo = new bar;
[/embed]

 some stuff

[embed]
	return $foo->blat;
[/embed]

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