[KinoSearch] Re: Subclassable Highlighter

[Marvin Humphrey]

Father Chrysostomos wrote in reply:

> > How about this instead?
> >
> >  * Eliminate Encoder, Formatter, SimpleHTMLEncoder, and
> >    SimpleHTMLFormatter.
> >  * Add public encode() and highlight() methods to Highlighter.
> >
> >  sub encode    { return encode_entities( $_[1] ) }
> >  sub highlight { return '<strong>' . $_[1] . '</strong>' }
>
> Actually, I think that’s worse than the current system. If I wanted
> simply to override the default HTML tags, I’d be much more comfortable
> with create an object than a class.

OK, I can understand that.  How about if we change highlight() to use  
variables which are settable via accessors?

   __PACKAGE__->ready_get_set(qw( pre_tag post_tag ));

   sub highlight { "$pre_tag{$$self}$_[1]$post_tag{$$self}" }

I'd really like to kill off those four classes.  And putting the  
highlighting functionality into a method named "highlight" makes more  
sense than farming it out to a class called "Formatter" (so named  
because it can't be "Highlighter").

Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/