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| author | padre@elte.hu <padre@elte.hu> | 2004-03-10 17:05:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2004-03-13 21:27:57 +0000 |
| commit | 0184c62dc331bcf7dca96c57c46dafcd327c65e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 28fae8d8037bf6715e9caac5f71a8660f9a90dbb /pod/perltoot.pod | |
| parent | f15752a524e132bcba8293837a456fb70f6471d9 (diff) | |
| download | perl-0184c62dc331bcf7dca96c57c46dafcd327c65e7.tar.gz | |
[perl #27567] [patch] a typo and a mistake in perltoot.pod
From: "padre@elte.hu (via RT)" <perlbug-followup@perl.org>
Message-ID: <rt-3.0.8-27567-81174.13.282806825515@perl.org>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22497
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltoot.pod b/pod/perltoot.pod index 2497063877..8d224dd341 100644 --- a/pod/perltoot.pod +++ b/pod/perltoot.pod @@ -1131,9 +1131,9 @@ above, just add this to Person.pm: our $VERSION = '1.1'; -and then in Employee.pm could you can say +and then in Employee.pm you can say - use Employee 1.1; + use Person 1.1; And it would make sure that you have at least that version number or higher available. This is not the same as loading in that exact version @@ -1497,10 +1497,10 @@ Here's a simple example of using it: struct 'Fred' => { one => '$', many => '@', - profession => Jobbie, # calls Jobbie->new() + profession => 'Jobbie', # does not call Jobbie->new() }; - $ob = Fred->new; + $ob = Fred->new(profession => Jobbie->new()); $ob->one("hmmmm"); $ob->many(0, "here"); @@ -1514,6 +1514,10 @@ You can declare types in the struct to be basic Perl types, or user-defined types (classes). User types will be initialized by calling that class's new() method. +Take care that the C<Jobbie> object is not created automatically by the +C<Fred> class's new() method, so you should specify a C<Jobbie> object +when you create an instance of C<Fred>. + Here's a real-world example of using struct generation. Let's say you wanted to override Perl's idea of gethostbyname() and gethostbyaddr() so that they would return objects that acted like C structures. We don't |