120 wrote: > On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 08:45 -0500, Someone Something wrote: >> SUPER is a class that controls the superclass of the current class. >> Look here: http://search.cpan.org/~chromatic/SUPER-1.17/lib/SUPER.pm >> >> So, what that means is, run the encrypt method/subroutine/function of >> the superclass of the current class. > Thank you for that :-) Some reading to do :-) > >> Something I would highly >> recommend is dive into Beginning Perl write a load of just little >> programs that maybe are useful or maybe not. For example, write a >> program that lets you experiment with regular expressions, by taking a >> string input and then taking an expression input then see if it >> matches. > I've done a few of those, but my simple code does not look as > sophisticated as much that I see written by pro's. That's why I'm > looking at other peoples work to try and understand what is going on. > > Thank you kindly for your help. > Rob > > >
Have you read these perldocs? perlboot Perl OO tutorial for beginners perltoot Perl OO tutorial, part 1 perltooc Perl OO tutorial, part 2 perlbot Perl OO tricks and examples They will help you understand the old-style Perl objects. New-style Perl objects are written in Moose http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Moose-0.93/lib/Moose.pm http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Moose-0.93/lib/Moose/Manual.pod http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Moose-0.93/lib/Moose/Manual/Concepts.pod http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Moose-0.93/lib/Moose/Manual/FAQ.pod http://search.cpan.org/~flora/Moose-0.93/lib/Moose/Cookbook.pod http://search.cpan.org/~stevan/Moose-0.54/lib/Moose/Cookbook/FAQ.pod -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/