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1. "Pass by value"? ' Don't think so.

sub addOne { $_[0]+=1 }
my $x = 1;
addOne($x);
print $x;

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It's the assignment to the lexical variables that makes the parameter passing look like "pass by value".

2. "Class variables aren't standard"
What do you mean by this?

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: php + Smarty looks like CGI
by broquaint (Abbot) on May 18, 2003 at 17:26 UTC
    "Pass by ' Don't think so.
    Yes, but what you're doing is explicitly accessing the argument list which is an array of aliases, which is somewhat of a hangover from earlier perls. But generally when you use the args passed into a subroutine you'll find that they were passed by value and not reference.
    What do you mean by this?
    In perl there's no standard way of creating or assigning class/object variables, whereas in PHP you can declare them with var $foo or create them with $this->foo = $thing and access them like so $this->foo.
    HTH

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      Out of interest, how painless is it to override the accessors or mutators?
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        If you've got a recent enough version (as is usually the case with PHP) you can do it very easily indeed by creating __get and __set methods and the calling then overload function with appropriate class name.
        HTH

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      1. Well ... but it's the aliases that are "passed" to the subroutine. When you do 

      sub foo {
 my ($foo, $bar) = @_;

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      you are assigning the values from the references/aliases passed to the subroutine to some lexical variables. The $foo and $bar are not the subroutine parameters, they are plain old lexicals that got their value from the parameters.

      2. I see. I've never worked with PHP so I did not know :-)

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