Thanks Justin, I'm quite familiar with OOP. It's class variables that I'm interested in setting, not instance variables. In Perl, this is implemented as package variables like $MyPackage::MyVariable.
I could've done this: $__PACKAGE__::MyVariable, but as I said, the package name is not determined at run time, so I need to use a variable in place of __PACKAGE__ Hope you have some ideas on this. Thanks. Justin Allegakoen wrote: > -------8<-------- > I'd like to figure out how to access package variables at runtime. In > other words, I may have a variable $class that contains the classname, > and I want to set a value to the package reference by this variable. > It'll be something like: > > $class::Message = "It works"; > -------8<-------- > Sounds like youre on the OOP path but don’t have an in depth understanding of > it, at least not in a Perl sense. > > > -------8<-------- > The problem now is that the package name is not known until runtime. I > may either be writing to $Package1::Message or $Package2::Message. > > Can anyone enlighten me on the proper syntax to use to do this? > -------8<-------- > Run time binding and polymorphism are things that you should be evaluating. > > > -------8<-------- > To complicate matters, what happens if I also want to assign values of > variables which are known only at runtime? For example (pseudocode): > > $class::$variable = "It works"; > -------8<-------- > Looks as if youre unwittingly trying to use symbolic references. Mark Jason > Dominus explains the donts here http://perl.plover.com/varvarname.html > > > As for the rest well perlboot and perltoot will point you in the right > direction. > > Just in > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com > To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs > _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
