Re: Question about a class

2007-03-19 Thread Madan Kumar Nath
Hi Jm, 1. If you use $class->speak(@_), the programe will go to infineite loop. because of recursive call. 2. The example is to demostrate, how to call the method of a class immediately up in the class hirarchy. Hope it helps Madan Jm lists wrote: Hello, Consi

Re: Question about a class

2007-03-19 Thread Chas Owens
On 3/19/07, Jm lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, Consider this script (coming from Randal's book): { package Animal; sub speak { my $class = shift; print "a $class goes ", $class->sound, "!\n"; } } { package Mouse; @ISA = qw(Animal); sub sound { "squeak" } sub speak {