> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 07:52:50PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > Just be sure you know what you are doing. Adding a method to somone > else's > class can be considered rude. See the NOTE in perldoc perlmodlib. >
He/she is maybe coming from other language like Ruby. In ruby it's free to add methods to any class including the built-in ones. irb(main):001:0> class String irb(main):002:1> def greeting irb(main):003:2> puts "hello I'm in string" irb(main):004:2> end irb(main):005:1> end => nil irb(main):006:0> s=String.new => "" irb(main):007:0> s.greeting hello I'm in string => nil -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
