Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from November 2003
On Sunday, November 30, 2003, at 12:40 am, Elizabeth Mattijsen wrote:
>> Because CLONE/DESTROY are called on objects, the mere presence of
>> them does not affect the compilation.
>
> Hmmm... that statement as such is incorrect, I think. CLONE is called
> as a _class_ method (I just realized), _not_ as an object method. As
> the following shows:
>
> use threads;
> sub CLONE { warn "CLONE called with @_\n" }
> threads->new( sub { 1 } )->join;
>
> gives as output:
>
> CLONE called with main
>
> This is a point that should be made more clearly. I just realised
> that after really grokking the "or inherited" in the following text
> from perldelta.pod:
>
Yes, sorry, meant called as methods when things happen.
Are there any more magic method names? :)
Arthur
Thread Previous
|
Thread Next