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| author | Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de> | 2003-10-12 20:55:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2003-10-12 16:28:06 +0000 |
| commit | 15634f32600dfd7c267231a107a89655e6a68433 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d698d5a5030d49d49e16c31ae91d76a98939673 /lib/Tie | |
| parent | 0cad7ed8738f312f479a2c3ee36c6cc1b76d037e (diff) | |
| download | perl-15634f32600dfd7c267231a107a89655e6a68433.tar.gz | |
Tie::Hash documentation
Message-Id: <200310121655.h9CGtsrY003613@vran.herceg.de>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@21439
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Tie')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Tie/Hash.pm | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Tie/Hash.pm b/lib/Tie/Hash.pm index 397272bece..c28e828d57 100644 --- a/lib/Tie/Hash.pm +++ b/lib/Tie/Hash.pm @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for tied hashes # All methods provided by default, define only those needing overrides # Accessors access the storage in %{$_[0]}; - # TIEHANDLE should return a reference to the actual storage + # TIEHASH should return a reference to the actual storage sub DELETE { ... } package NewExtraHash; @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Tie::Hash, Tie::StdHash, Tie::ExtraHash - base class definitions for tied hashes # All methods provided by default, define only those needing overrides # Accessors access the storage in %{$_[0][0]}; - # TIEHANDLE should return an array reference with the first element being + # TIEHASH should return an array reference with the first element being # the reference to the actual storage sub DELETE { $_[0][1]->('del', $_[0][0], $_[1]); # Call the report writer @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Clear all values from the tied hash I<this>. The accessor methods assume that the actual storage for the data in the tied hash is in the hash referenced by C<tied(%tiedhash)>. Thus overwritten -C<TIEHANDLE> method should return a hash reference, and the remaining methods +C<TIEHASH> method should return a hash reference, and the remaining methods should operate on the hash referenced by the first argument: package ReportHash; @@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ should operate on the hash referenced by the first argument: The accessor methods assume that the actual storage for the data in the tied hash is in the hash referenced by C<(tied(%tiedhash))[0]>. Thus overwritten -C<TIEHANDLE> method should return an array reference with the first +C<TIEHASH> method should return an array reference with the first element being a hash reference, and the remaining methods should operate on the hash C<< %{ $_[0]->[0] } >>: @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ hash C<< %{ $_[0]->[0] } >>: $_[0][0]{$_[1]} = $_[2] } -The default C<TIEHANDLE> method stores "extra" arguments to tie() starting +The default C<TIEHASH> method stores "extra" arguments to tie() starting from offset 1 in the array referenced by C<tied(%tiedhash)>; this is the same storage algorithm as in TIEHASH subroutine above. Hence, a typical package inheriting from B<Tie::ExtraHash> does not need to overwrite this |