Please bottom post....
>
> No. $self you'll usually see in a lot of Object Oriented applications.
When a
> subroutine is called using the -> operator ($mw = MainWindow->new, for
> example) the first arguement passed to that subroutine is the name of the
> package/class. So, $self is usually used to display this. So, a common
constructor is
>
"package/class" or the object instance...
> sub new {
> my ($self, %args) = @_;
> return bless \%args, $self;
> }
>
> Look into perldoc perlboot, perldoc perltoot, perldoc -f bless, etc.
Like the
> name "new" for a constructor, you can name it anything you want, but many
> choose to name it $self, because in a constructor it is literally the
name of
> your own package, and otherwhere it is a hash blessed to your own
package. Hope
> that helps.
Not necessarily a hash. For myself I prefer to use $class rather than
$self in class methods, so that I know that I am not (cannot) be working
on an instance.
http://danconia.org
>
>
> In a message dated 2/19/2004 11:24:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> is $self a special scalar?
>
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