[Wellington-pm] Creating an array of objects

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Sat Mar 11 13:04:08 PST 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 23:02 +1300, Grant McLean wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 21:58 +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > my $foo = MyPackage->new('bar') ;
> > 
> > Is $foo an object or an object reference?
> 
> the distinction is seldom important

Actually just to contradict myself ...

It is important to realise that if you assign $foo to $bar, then you end
up with two references to the same object.  Change a property on one and
you'll see it's changed on the other as well.

Cheers
Grant





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