On Jul 20, 6:09 pm, shawnhco...@gmail.com (Shawn H Corey) wrote:
> On 11-07-20 07:03 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
>
> > the other is a class method call. it has two major differences. first it
> > will pass its class (or object, the arg before ->) as the first arg in
> > the call. the second thing is tha
On 21/07/2011 05:32, Rob Dixon wrote:
It would be possible to generate calls to undefined subroutines at
compile time, but because the symbol table can be modified at run time
with such trickery suck as *Foo::bar = \&Foo::foo it is also left until
run time to report any such errors.
My apolog
> "RD" == Rob Dixon writes:
RD> I'm not sure what you mean here Shawn. Errors are generated at run time
RD> in both cases, so code like
RD> if (0) {
RD> Foo::bar();
RD> }
RD> if (0) {
Foo-> bar();
RD> }
RD> will generate no errors at all. In particular the meth
On 21/07/2011 02:09, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On 11-07-20 07:03 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
the other is a class method call. it has two major differences. first it
will pass its class (or object, the arg before ->) as the first arg in
the call. the second thing is that it will search the class hierarchy
On 11-07-20 07:03 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
the other is a class method call. it has two major differences. first it
will pass its class (or object, the arg before ->) as the first arg in
the call. the second thing is that it will search the class hierarchy
(using the package global's @ISA) to find
Marc that was a really good question. On the surface they do seem exactly
alike.
Cheers!
- biskofski
On Jul 20, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Marc wrote:
> On Jul 20, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
>
>> so don't think they are even similar as one is a sub call and the other
>> is a class method c
On Jul 20, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Uri Guttman wrote:
> so don't think they are even similar as one is a sub call and the other
> is a class method call. they aren't interchangeble at all
Yep, you're correct. Why is everything so simple once someone explains
it to you??? =;)
That al
> "M" == Marc writes:
M>I've noticed that the following two lines seem to be equivalent when
calling a sub from a module called Lib.pm:
Lib-> load_config("config.dat");
M> Lib::load_config("config.dat");
M>Is this just a case of TIMTOWTDI or is there a difference in how
