You can program in COBOL(style wise) using java, but you probably shouldn't do so. Likewise making an array into an object seems more like an excercise of mimicing that other language rather than providing much real benefit.

Perl provides enough facilities for managing arrays that its not necessary to objectify them, other than to be a purist :-) At least I can't think of any methods that are lacking/missing. By facilities I mean -1 is the last element, scalar(@array) is the length/number of elements, $#array is the number of the last element. push/pop/unshift/shift - all for adding or removing from the front or the end. The common perl idiom is to use a HASH as your blessed object, and that hash may contain references to simpler types like an arrays. Not critcizing you for doing this..I've done fun things like this to see if I 'could' myself. I'm actually curious as to the reasons you want to objectify an array.

In reply to Re: Functions to Methods by blueAdept
in thread Functions to Methods by neniro

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