SPUG: method call during object construction
Umar Cheema
umar at drizzle.com
Wed Feb 15 15:16:32 PST 2006
Okay nevermind, I see it now. It's a simple assignment. $obj gets set
to the value that's returned by the method call or by the last assignment
inside the method.
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Umar Cheema wrote:
I was hoping to make this work:
my $obj = Class->new('class_name')->change_name('new_class_name');
$obj->do_other_things();
....
But after the constructor call $obj simply holds the value returned by the
'change_name' method.
Of course the following works just fine:
my $obj = Class->new('class_name');
$obj->change_name('new_name');
$obj->do_other_things();
...
Can someone explain what is going on with the first way of calling a
method during construction? Is this something we're not suppose to do or
am I just seeing weird perl behavior for some other reason?
Thanks,
Umar
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