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)
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