In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Hanson wrote: >> But I'm wondering if there is another way >> (like the Java "private variable") to say >> "all class variables declared here are unique >> to each instance"? > > It sounds like you are trying to link how OO-Perl works with OO-Java... > and > that is only going to make your head spin. What you really need to do is > understand what bless really does, and that OO-Perl isn't really OO in the > usual sense (but it works like it is). [...]
> Now when you talk about instance variables, realize that there is no true > object instance in Perl. It is just a reference tagged with a "type"... > the rest is all smoke and mirrors. > > So to emulate instance variables you can use a hash reference instead of > a scalar reference, like this: And this actually works quite fine I think... > I hope that helps a little. > > Rob Thanks, that helped a lot! (Thank you also to others who responded.) Meanwhile my "naive ticketMachine" is chugging along. And I like doing the Perl version of something else; it's good practice for me (though I'm getting tired of typing "my $self = shift;"). ;-) -K -- Kevin Pfeiffer International University Bremen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
