in reply to inheritance turns back and bites

as others said already, in MyNumber, you have implemented the method add different from the one in SomeData. you have to decide which one you want.

also, in the new method of SomeData, you have a little error. if you do
sub new { bless \pop, shift }
it's like doing
sub new { bless \42, "MyNumber" }
and you can't bless a constant into an object. so do my $arg = pop; bless \$arg, shift

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Re: Re: inheritance turns back and bites
by dada (Chaplain) on Mar 01, 2004 at 13:57 UTC
    it's like doing sub new { bless \42, "MyNumber" }
    no, it's like doing: 
    sub new { bless $_[-1], $_[0] }

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    which I can do. arguably a good idea, but I can. and in fact, that part works, at least in my perl interpreter. (note: the code is deliberately "strange" just to hide a bit the real problem :-).

    cheers,
    Aldo

    King of Laziness, Wizard of Impatience, Lord of Hubris

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Re: Re: inheritance turns back and bites
by borisz (Canon) on Mar 01, 2004 at 13:51 UTC
    sub new { bless \pop, shift } it's like doing sub new { bless \42, "MyNumber" } and you can't bless a constant into an object. so do my $arg = pop; bless \$arg, shift
    I do not think this is wrong, since \pop is like \pop @_ and whatever I pop it is pushed and a pushed constant is a scalar.
    Boris
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      sorry, but:
      perl -wle'
sub new { bless \pop, shift }
my $main = new ("ClassName", 42);'
Modification of a read-only value attempted at -e line 2.

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i586-linux
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i686-linux

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      am i overlooking something?

      Update: same result with
      This is perl, v5.8.2 built for i686-linux

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        you are correct, but there should be something strange going on under the hood. it seems only Windows allows the bless \pop, shift trick.

        This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread -> ok
        This is perl, v5.8.2 built for cygwin-thread-multi-64int -> ok
        This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i686-linux -> dies

        sorry for not checking this beforehand. however, the reason why it works on a platform and fails on another is beyond the scope of this thread :-)

        cheers,
        Aldo

        King of Laziness, Wizard of Impatience, Lord of Hubris

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        Interesting, your sample code did _not_ result in a errormessage for me on linux with perl 5.8.1! But it does with my old perl 5.6.1 on the same machine.
        Boris
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