RE: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-13 Thread Tom Norwood
. -Original Message- From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 March 2003 21:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inheritance and clone() Hi Tom. You're a bit off-track here with your appreciation of object methods, but I'll try to put you straight as well as answer your questions

Re: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-12 Thread Rob Dixon
David wrote: Rob Dixon wrote: you couldn't get a new object by simply writing: my $object2 = $object; as what you would have is simply a second handle to the same object, and all changes to one would be echoed in the other. You would have to do: my $object2 = clone

Re: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-12 Thread Rob Dixon
David Wilson wrote: There is a clone module on CPAN. Take a look at it. It will do what you need. Tom's original post was about how to call the 'clone' method of a given object. His assumption was that clone was a built-in, so he was failing to find documentation on it. It was not a question

RE: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-12 Thread Tom Norwood
to by a ref as an object. But what does that mean in actual terms, the access method for package variables doesn't change. Thanks again, Tom Norwood. -Original Message- From: Rob Dixon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 March 2003 11:51 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inheritance and clone

Re: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-12 Thread Rob Dixon
Hi Tom. You're a bit off-track here with your appreciation of object methods, but I'll try to put you straight as well as answer your questions as they are. Tom Norwood wrote: Cheers Rob, below is the clone() from URI::WithBase (the base class of URI::URL). sub clone { my $self = shift;

RE: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-11 Thread Tom Norwood
; Is this right, and if so how do I find out how to use it myself. Tom Norwood. -Original Message- From: Wiggins d'Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2003 02:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inheritance and clone() Tom Norwood wrote: I can't find

RE: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-11 Thread NYIMI Jose (BMB)
http://search.cpan.org/author/RDF/Clone-0.13/Clone.pm José. -Original Message- From: Tom Norwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:28 PM To: Wiggins d'Anconia Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Inheritance and clone() I'm looking into writing some OO

Re: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-11 Thread Rob Dixon
Tom Norwood wrote: I'm looking into writing some OO modules for my sites, and have found a few examples but they don't define their own 'clone' functions. So from what you said previously 'clone' must be defined within one of the following: use HTTP::Status; use HTTP::Request; use

RE: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-11 Thread Tom Norwood
PROTECTED] Sent: 11 March 2003 12:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inheritance and clone() Tom Norwood wrote: I'm looking into writing some OO modules for my sites, and have found a few examples but they don't define their own 'clone' functions. So from what you said previously 'clone' must

Re: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-11 Thread david
Rob Dixon wrote: you couldn't get a new object by simply writing: my $object2 = $object; as what you would have is simply a second handle to the same object, and all changes to one would be echoed in the other. You would have to do: my $object2 = clone ($object); sub

RE: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-11 Thread David Wilson
There is a clone module on CPAN. Take a look at it. It will do what you need. -David W. -Original Message- From: david [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Inheritance and clone() Rob Dixon wrote: you couldn't get a new

Re: Inheritance and clone()

2003-03-10 Thread Wiggins d'Anconia
Tom Norwood wrote: I can't find much documentation for this function and related constructor methods. I would be grateful for any assistance that can be offered. I admit I am not to familiar with perldoc but searching (with and without -q) using 'inheritance', 'constructor' and 'clone' keywords