[tpm] Found the answer: Re: Understanding 'use base ...'

Madison Kelly linux at alteeve.com
Mon Jul 14 11:59:19 PDT 2008


Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I am working on some docs, and noticed that a module is called via:
> 
> use base qw(Net::DBus::Object);
> 
>   I am trying to understand the 'use base' syntax, and all I've been 
> able to find in perldoc is in perlmodlib:
> 
> base        Establish IS-A relationship with base classes at compile time
> 
>   Can someone either explain to me what this means, or better, point me 
> at what docs explain "IS-A relationship"s? I hate "just accepting" that 
> something is at it is. Probably why I never get anything actually done. :)
> 
>   Thanks as always!
> 
> Madi

I am sorry for the line noise... After posting this I smacked myself in 
the head and simply looked for 'base' in perldoc. Duh. :)

http://perldoc.perl.org/base.html

Sorry, and thanks.

Madi


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