Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN
one surprising aspect of perl is that Cbless affects the object, not
the reference, so it is possible to rebless things, which is handy if
you use package-based state machines
D:\perl -le bless $o=[],'abc';print $o; sub f{$l=shift; bless
$l,'DEF'} f $o; print $o
abc=ARRAY(0x3e5444)
DEF=ARRAY(0x3e5444)
because after C my $self = shift you can bless $self and the
invocant will get reblessed.
So whenever anyone says a Perl object is a blessed reference they're
speaking procedurally, not descriptively. Descriptively, a Perl object
is a reference to a blessed thingy.
(I think that's correct terminology, please correct if wrong)
Re: Please advise before I submit to CPAN
On 10-09-09 02:43 PM, David Nicol wrote: So whenever anyone says a Perl object is a blessed reference they're speaking procedurally, not descriptively. Descriptively, a Perl object is a reference to a blessed thingy. (I think that's correct terminology, please correct if wrong) Yes, Perl is the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. The secret to great software: Fail early often. Eliminate software piracy: use only FLOSS.
