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Re^5: Simple inheritance question

by webfiend (Vicar)
on Apr 23, 2010 at 17:12 UTC ( [id://836570]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: Simple inheritance question
in thread Simple inheritance question

Glad you got the solution you needed. I was a little unclear on the original question. I also think it's interesting that One doesn't need a constructor in the object solution. It makes sense, considering that a One is never instantiated. I didn't realize that Perl's package handling let's you "inherit" from a package that isn't actually a class.

We learn something every day if we give ourselves a chance.

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Re^6: Simple inheritance question
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 23, 2010 at 19:36 UTC
    I didn't realize that Perl's package handling let's you "inherit" from a package that isn't actually a class.

    There's no effective difference between a package and a class or a function and a method inside Perl 5. The internals don't care. If you treat something like a class name (by using it as an invocant), Perl 5 will use that package's namespace to find the destination method. Any reference blessed into a package will use that package's namespace to find its destination methods.

    Those packages don't even have to exist for Perl 5 to attempt to dispatch to them as invocants, but you will get dispatch errors if they don't.

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