Jacob Chapa wrote: > what does bless do?
It gives the hash reference offered as the first argument access to the methods of the package named by the second argument. there is more, but this is an alright place to start. The effect is to turn the hash reference into an object reference. Ideally, class users should not ever have to access the hash elements directly, and should instead use these class methods to query or modify attributes of the object, or to carry out its functions. perldoc -f bless perldoc perlreftut perldoc perlref perldoc perlobj perldoc perlmod Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>