Hello everybody! I work with perl from time to time, and I thought that I could give a try to object programming with a small project I'm on for a few days. My question is about the push function when the array is part of an object. Here is my object: 
sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = {
        _description => shift,
        _priority => shift,
        _type  => shift,
        _tasks => []
    };
    bless $self, $class;
    return $self;
}

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I tried to add a method to add an element to the array "_tasks". I tried this: 
sub addTask {
    my( $self, $task ) = @_;
    push($self->{_tasks}, $task);
    return $task;
}

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but when I run the program it warns me that "push on reference is experimental at Project.pm line 40"

In order to avoid that, I tried the following approach:

sub addTask {
    my( $self, $task ) = @_;
    my @taskArray = @{ $self->{_tasks} };
    push @taskArray, $task;
    @{ $self->{_tasks} } = @taskArray;
    return $task;
}

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I got this after a lot of tests (with Dumpers to see what my varaiables looked like), but I'd like to know if this is the right way to do it. I don't want to start with bad methodology when building my methods.

Thank you

In reply to Class array, push a new element by hatz

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