rsennat,
I have a doubt in OO Perl usage. ... Thanks and hope the question is clear.

I believe it is generally more popular to use "question" where you used "doubt". That was easy to figure out. The second part of the question is a bit more confusing, but it sounds like you want to know how a method can be treated as a method or a regular subroutine.

If that is the case, parameter checking can help: 

sub generate_hash {
    my $self;
    if ( ref $_[0] && @_ == 4 ) {
        # We were called as a method
        $self = shift;        
    }
    my ($i, $j, $k) = @_;    
}

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Now this is still not perfect but you know better than I what error conditions you need to handle. I also do want to mention that there should be no need for this. You can call one method inside another method without needing to treat it as a regular subroutine: 
sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = {};
    bless $self, $class;
    $self->_initialize(@_);
    return $self;
}
sub _initialize {
    my $self = shift;
    # Do stuff with @_
}

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As you can see, the method call works inside the method just fine. Typically the only reason you would want to change behavior based off parameters is if you wanted to provide modules with the option of non-OO functionality.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re: OO perl query by Limbic~Region
in thread OO perl query by rsennat

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