Hey guys, thought i would ask my question here, i am new to perl and moving rather quickly in it, trying to write POOP code which seems to be more of a hustle in Perl than any other non scripting language i ve used so far.

Lets take the following example:

package Farm;


use strict;
use warnings;

sub new {
    my $className = shift;

    my $self  = {
            $farmName,"",
                        "farmMamals",(),
            "farmBirds",()
    };

    bless $self,$className;          
        return $self;
}
sub addFarmBirds {
my self =shift;
my tempBirds=[] ; # right way of initialising an array ??

if (@_){ @tempBirds=@_};
#now for the part i dont understand
$self->{farmBirds} = @tempBirds;
return
}
}

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Here my intention is to declare a hash of variables that belong to the specific object (forgive my poor terminology, still trying to get the gribs of it). From what i understand farmBirds is declared as an array (not a reference to one).
If i now call myFarm->addFarmBirds(@someFarmBirdsArray) will that array's items be placed inside the farmBirds array internal to the object "myFarm"? Or are the variables i declared in the class Farm stored as references?
will something like my @birds = $self->{farmBirds}; successfully make a copy of the farmBirds array in the @birds array? It doesnt not appear to be the case, any ideas on how i can make that happen?

In reply to Help!!!! POOP is confusing me! by bittis

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