On 9/25/07, Yona Shlomo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks. This addresses my problems. > Some questions:
I tried to find some pointers in perldoc but I could not come up with anything comprehensive perlbot, perlsub and perltoot have something about it > > 1. why our and not my for AUTOLOAD? the real $AUTOLOAD is a package global so you need to treat it that way. if you declare it with "my" you get a lexically scoped variable that will hide the real one. > 2. why do I need to implement (even an empty) DESTROY sub? because it is called when the object goes out of scope and if you have an AUTOLOAD method it will catch it. You can of course say return if $AUTOLOAD =~ /::DESTROY$/; in your AUTOLOAD method but I find it more descriptive to declare an empty DESTROY method. Sometime I even add a comment saying # to avoid triggering AUTOLOAD Gabor Perl Training Israel http://www.pti.co.il/ _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
