On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Bill Catlan wrote: > Idiom in question: > > # Get run-mode from subref > $rm = $rm_param->($self); > > Is there a word for this idiom in the object oriented programming world - where > an object calls a method on itself and passes a reference to itself to that > method? It seems like a kind of recursion. It would help me to have a label > for this brain twister. :)
Try "Object Oriented Programming with Perl" by Damian Conway. If there's a name for it, it's in there! -sam --------------------------------------------------------------------- Web Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
