Re: inheritance turns back and bites

Well, you can't modify constants. Your problem isn't any different than:

    bless \42, "whatever";
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    sub foo {$_ [0] += 10}
    foo 42;
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Furthermore, the use of bless \pop, shift; is questionable, as there's no order of evaluation defined for the comma in list context.

Abigail

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Re: Re: inheritance turns back and bites by ysth (Canon) on Mar 01, 2004 at 16:25 UTC
That's what I thought at first glance, but after a moment realized that pop, shift on a 2+ element array is going to get the last and first elements regardless of order of evaluation. Nevertheless, it's a bad way to do it, since if the method call is given no parameters, the bless will default to package "main" (with a warning).	[reply]