Randy W. Sims wrote: > > On 02/20/04 01:35, Jacob Chapa wrote: > > > what does bless do? > > It depends on how much you know. ;-) > > Basically it takes a reference to a perl type and tags it as an object, > so that in addition to being a reference to a type, it now has special > properties: primarily that it can have subroutines (methods) associated > with it. It's a reference on steroids.
More exactly, it a thing (hash, array, or scalar) that a reference refers to with the name of a package. Thereafter Perl will look in that package to find the subroutines which form the object's method calls. Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
