On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:19:38PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > package Dog;
> > use fields qw(this night up);
> >
> > my Dog $ph = [];
> > $ph->{this} = "that";
>
> That works? I thought you had to do:
>
> my Dog $self = fields::new('Dog');
Nope. fields::new() basically just does C<bless
[\%{"$class\::FIELDS"}], $class>, but the current pseudohash
implementation doesn't care if something is an object or not. It just
cares about either A) its type or B) what's in $ph->[0]. I don't know
if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but there's nothing on the
table to change it (yet).
my Dog $ph = [];
$ph->{this} = "that";
deparses at compile-time to:
my Dog $ph = [];
$ph->[$Dog::FIELDS{this}] = "that"; # actually the %FIELDS lookup is also
# done at compile time, but I left
# it in for illustration.
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