Hi, I had to read that over a few times to get it. And now I see that I do indeed have that situation, there are a number of times when I call my $holdstatus = new Holds(); from within a module that also has a new method. What I don't understand is how does my code work at all?
Thanks, Eric At 07:13 PM 10/14/02 +0200, Rafiq Ismail wrote: >On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Eric Frazier wrote: >> >That looks like voodoo code copied from a man page. If you call this as >> >Holds->new(), you don't need that junk about ref. (And most people >> >recommend against the "new Holds" syntax.) >> >> I wanted the DBH to be global since just about every sub in Holds does a >> query of some sort. I guess it doesn't matter either way if I do the connect >> in the new() vs up top outside of a sub. > >Boredom break: > >As for your dbh, stick it whereever its scope applies, however I don't >like declaring globals, so I've found that if I make the dbh accessible >via an object, usually together with Apache::DBI in the background, I can >often do clean up stuff, such as closing the handle (incase Apache::DBI >isn't in place with a particular invokation of the package), last system >logging updates/inserts, or whatever the job requires in a DESTROY method. > >> What is the problem with the my $holdcheck = new Holds() type of syntax? >> I never read anything about that either way. >It's in the book which I think should be called, 'the guy in the silly hat >book,' ie. Damien's OO book, pretty much saying that, > >"The indirect object syntax does, however, suffer from the same type of >ambiguity problems that sometime befuddles print .... > > my $cd3 = new get_classname() (@data) #Compilation Error > >... > > <parapharased type="badly"> > Assuming you have $cd="MyPackage" and: > get_name $cd; > > This is usually equivalent to: > $cd->get_name; > > However, let's say that you have a method in the invoking script >named 'get_name', then: > > get_name $cd; > > Gets interpreted as: > > get_name("MyPackage") > > Which is not what you're after. > </paraphrase> >" - from the guy in the silly hat book > >-- >Senior Programmer >Bookings.nl >---------------------------------------------------------- >Me::[EMAIL PROTECTED]||www.dreamthought.com >Budget hosting on my 10Mbit/backbone::[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (250) 655 - 9513 (PST Time Zone) "Inquiry is fatal to certainty." -- Will Durant