Re^2: Question about __PACKAGE_

Do you mean these four lines belonged to Foo are calling class method instead of object method? Therefore no object is created by them, right?

__PACKAGE__->hello('test1');
Foo->hello('test2');
hello(__PACKAGE__, 'text3');
hello('Foo', 'text4');
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However, if I call this line:

Foo->new()->hello('test5');
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one object will be created. Am I right so far?
Thanks.

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Re^3: Question about __PACKAGE__ by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 22, 2010 at 07:15 UTC
Yes. Mind you, in practice, `hello` is probably only suppose to called one of the two ways.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Question about __PACKAGE__ by gam3 (Curate) on Jan 22, 2010 at 12:24 UTC
It is important to note that Perl OO does not have any "built in" concept of data. There is no default Constructor and the Destructor consists of a call to DESTROY. It might be more descriptive to rewrite `Foo->new()->hello('test5');` as `bless(\sub {}, 'Foo')->hello('test5');` [download] This just blesses a CODE_REF for fun. It could be a HASHREF or some other REF. The only real difference between `'Foo'->hello()` [download] and `bless(sub {}, 'Foo')->hello()` [download] Besides the fact that the blessed version can contain data, is that just before the blessed object is Garbage Collected, DESTROY is called with it as the argument ($x->DESTROY). UNIVERSAL contains a DESTROY method, so it always exists. -- gam3 A picture is worth a thousand words, but takes 200K.	[reply] [d/l] [select]