# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Sisyphus
# on Sunday 19 June 2005 01:36 am:
>The exisiting DESTROY() routine won't cope with having to clean up
> Civilian structures. Is there a way that the DESTROY() routine can be
> modified so that it can clean up both Civilian and Soldier structures
> ?
Yes.
> ... or does the Civilian structure need to be blessed into its own
> separate package - with its own separate DESTROY() routine ?
Yes.
You *could* add some sort of flag to your struct and an if() to
DESTROY(). Alternatively, you could write DESTROY() in perl and call
one of two C methods from there.
But most would argue that the civilian is not the same as a soldier?
Presumably you have a set of methods that works on both of them?
I haven't tried it, but what about inheritance? If Civilian @ISA
Soldier, then you just override new() and DESTROY() right? You would
need another constructor anyway to get a different struct.
--Eric
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