Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: >BUT HERE, we're using > >$class->OtherClass::method(@_); > >which says explicitly to start looking for method() in OtherClass >(and if it fails there, look in OtherClass's @ISA). So > >$class->Animal::speak(); > >in your case becomes > >Animal::speak($class); > >except that it becomes that DYNAMICALLY.
I see. So Animal just marks the starting point for the search, and it might become LivingCreature::speak($class) later on if speak is not found in Animal. > >>And when Perl does not find Animal::speak in Mouse, to: > >Ah, here's the confusion. This isn't looking for a method named >'Animal::speak' in 'Mouse'; it's looking for a method named 'speak' >in 'Animal'. > >Only the right-most part of a Thing::Like::this denotes the name of >a method. That's exactly the information I was looking for. Thank you, Japhy. - Jan -- These are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have others. - Groucho Marx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
