On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:59:20 +0000 rakesh sharma <rakeshsharm...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > HI all > > I am using object oriented perl and saw return self as well as bless > being used According to docs bless returns the reference to self. Why > should we use both statements in the new method > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > Because the variable $self has no special meaning. You could use $this instead. Or any other name. Or don't use one at all: sub new { my $class = shift @_; return bless {}, $class; } See http://perldoc.perl.org/perlobj.html#An-Object-is-Simply-a-Data-Structure -- Don't stop where the ink does. Shawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
