Plurrrr

At runtime, the SUPER:: method redispatch looks at the package into which Perl 5 compiled the current method, then looks in its list of parent classes to figure out which method to call next.

You can see the problem. This behavior is, I believe, largely an artifact of a particular implementation -- likely the intersection of several sensible design decisions which combined to produce an unfortunate corner case.

The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a methodology for building software-as-a-service applications by Adam Wiggins. We cover how they have since evolved, and what we can learn from them today and how they changed the status quo of yesteryear.

As a NixOS configuration grows in complexity, it may eventually become clear that it’s not optimally organized. Maybe the entire configuration is in a single unwieldy file and needs to be broken up. Maybe there are bits repeated for every machine which should really be placed in a common module. This can become a problem in any codebase, but there is a trick for NixOS configurations that makes the process a whole lot less stressful.