On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 14:33 US/Pacific, Greenhalgh David wrote: [..]
[..]My thanks to both of you. The explanation was clear even to me, much better than the book i am using to learn perl.
which book are you trying to learn from?
What you may also want to think about, is that an author of a book does not get the luxury of watching how others are offering answers to a specific question, and then craft a response that fills in specific details not yet covered by others, based upon the work i was avoiding... ( cf. ps note below.... )
So there were several folks who offered may very good examples and technical bits that laid a really great set of base lines, so that I was left with merely writing a summation of basic experiences.
I will defer to Kristofer to make sure that the named and unnamed hash tricks get mentioned in this discussion.
As you start to feel at home with how to play tricks with hashes in perl, you will understand the core of the Perl5 implementation of OO style Objects as well...
ciao drieux
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ps: I of course had my bbedit of a current piece of cgi code laying open, and I am mumbling unpleasantries at the difference between what I have coded, and what I WANT it to do, and so took a break to review what questions were floating.
one of the silliest cases was trying to figure out how I wanted to solve a problem, and after answering a theoretical question on a mailing list. I opted to just cut and paste my answer into my code, dust it up and move on to the next little piece of HORROR that needed to be coded correctly...
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