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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-07-07 21:29:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-07-07 21:29:46 +0000 |
| commit | 51301382055ed3f3276ad3e2c544fb9e477a270e (patch) | |
| tree | f2e0daa5089eeda27af801f69dd3d042dda34424 /lib/fields.pm | |
| parent | a8119d38469f151dd6b4e5910e0c600b5f2c21e1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-51301382055ed3f3276ad3e2c544fb9e477a270e.tar.gz | |
doc tweaks suggested by Abigail, M.J.T. Guy, and Larry Wall
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@1357
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/lib/fields.pm b/lib/fields.pm index 2c75ff4e61..05271a3dc0 100644 --- a/lib/fields.pm +++ b/lib/fields.pm @@ -42,11 +42,11 @@ and the 'base' pragma modules. The 'base' pragma will copy fields from base classes and the 'fields' pragma adds new fields. Field names that start with an underscore character are made private to a class and are not visible to subclasses. Inherited fields can be -overridden but will generate a warning if used together with the -w -option. +overridden but will generate a warning if used together with the C<-w> +switch. The effect of all this is that you can have objects with named fields -which are as compact and as fast arrays too access. This only works +which are as compact and as fast arrays to access. This only works as long as the objects are accessed through properly typed variables. For untyped access to work you have to make sure that a reference to the proper %FIELDS hash is assigned to the 0'th element of the array |