Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 02:19:38PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
> > Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > package Dog;
> > > use fields qw(this night up);
> > >
> > > my Dog $ph = [];
> > > $ph->{this} = "that";
> >
> > That works? I thought you had to do:
> >
> > my Dog $self = fields::new('Dog');
>
> Nope. fields::new() basically just does C<bless
> [\%{"$class\::FIELDS"}], $class>, but the current pseudohash
> implementation doesn't care if something is an object or not. It just
> cares about either A) its type or B) what's in $ph->[0]. I don't know
> if this is a good thing or a bad thing, but there's nothing on the
> table to change it (yet).
>
> my Dog $ph = [];
> $ph->{this} = "that";
>
> deparses at compile-time to:
>
> my Dog $ph = [];
> $ph->[$Dog::FIELDS{this}] = "that"; # actually the %FIELDS lookup is also
> # done at compile time, but I left
> # it in for illustration.
Hmm... it still feels like undocumented behaviour. I'd definitely be
inclined to tighten up the base/fields behaviour. My feeling is that
the proposal makes them closer to the Right Thing.
--
Piers
