From: "Jeff Peng" <pen...@nsbeta.info> > > 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.
Nothing prevents you from doing that in Perl either (well, with inside-out classes you'll have problems accessing the fields, but that's a different problem). The thing is that if you overdo this you end up with messy code. Jenda ===== je...@krynicky.cz === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
