Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 03:24 AM, Damian Conway wrote: >> Michael Lazzaro asked: >>> class FileBasedHash is Hash { ...stuff... }; >>> my %data is FileBasedHash('/tmp/foo.txt'); >> Yes. > >>> my $path = '/tmp/foo.txt'; >>> my %data is FileBasedHash($path); >> Indeed > > Great -- then I have only one more question, I think. In the words of > a certain cartoon character, what's *this* button do? > > my $b is $a;
Compile time error. 'is' is a compile time property, scalar values aren't.