2009/4/20 Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com>: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:26, Dermot <paik...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> 2009/4/20 Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com>: >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:21, Dermot <paik...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> ... > snip > > I would avoid the do {...} and just muck with %defaults directly (as I > did in the example).
Will do. (no pun intended but enjoying the side effects). > snip >>> You might also want to look into the Singleton pattern[1]. >>> >>> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singleton_pattern >> >> >> Design patterns. I have come across this term a few times but there is >> very little Perl examples of Design Patterns around and not a single >> example of Singleton pattern on that page :-( > snip > > Here you go: > > http://perldesignpatterns.com/?PerlDesignPatterns > http://perldesignpatterns.com/?SingletonPattern Pure gold. Excellent. Thanx, Dp. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/