Geoffrey Young wrote:
> anyway, when I was doing the part on method handlers for the mod_perl
> cookbook I said "$self is always the name of the class" and IIRC stas
> pointed me to that example so I changed the wording to "usually." but
> I've
> never seen it used in real life like that - certai
> And I've never seen a situation where 'self was a ref'
> could you please enlighten me.
the vast majority of the time $self is the class name, since you generally
see this kind of config
PerlResponseHandler My::Class->handler
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/method_handlers.html#Simple
Geoffrey Young wrote:
>> sub handler : method {
>> my ($self,$r) = @_;
>> $self = $self->new unless ref $self;
>> $self->{r} = $r;
>> }
>>
>> When exactly is this ref used? AFAIK $_[0] will never be a reference.
> it will when you use the :method attribute :)
> in short,
Jonathan Vanasco wrote:
>
> It was annoying to get my head around this. the 'magic' part of it
> holds true and makes it confusing.
>
> for the longest time, i would just print $var, ref $var and other stuff
> to STDERR to try and get my head around it
>
> I never quite did completely underst
It was annoying to get my head around this. the 'magic' part of it
holds true and makes it confusing.
for the longest time, i would just print $var, ref $var and other stuff
to STDERR to try and get my head around it
I never quite did completely understand it, but doing the above trained
> sub handler : method {
> my ($self,$r) = @_;
> $self = $self->new unless ref $self;
> $self->{r} = $r;
> }
>
> When exactly is this ref used? AFAIK $_[0] will never be a reference.
it will when you use the :method attribute :)
in short, it's magic - run the handler an
Hi,
>From the practical mod_perl book (focuses on mp 1.x though):
sub new {
bless {}, shift;
}
#mp1.x uses sub handler($$) {}
sub handler : method {
my ($self,$r) = @_;
$self = $self->new unless ref $self;
$self->{r} = $r;
}
When exactly is this ref used? AFAIK
