angie ahl wrote:
> Hi everyone
>
> I'm failing to find something in the manuals (or at least the bit I'm
> missing ;)
>
> I have an package called "Event"
>
> in it I have a subroutine called EventList
>
> sub EventList {
> my ($class, %arg) = @_;
> # load of code here
> return ([EMAIL PROTECTED], \$startdate, \$enddate);
> }
> ...but I don't seem to be able to access it. I've tried all sorts:
Call it by its name. You have not defined a new() function. You have
defined EventList. Thaqt is not a good name. If you are not going to call
your constructor new, then it should be Event().
With what you have, though, you should call it:
my $event = Event->EventList(pot1 => val1, etc);
This is really out there, though. You can take this and possibly squeeeze
it into something workable, but you should really start by reading the
documentaion:
perldoc perlref
perldoc perlreftut
perldoc perlobj
perldoc perlmod
probbly in that order.
an array and random variables are generally not going to be a good way to
store an objects information. The just are not very cohesive. The standard
in Perl is to return a hash as the container for all instance data. Until
you have sufficient mastery of the language to know why you are diverging
from the standard, you should not do so.
I would advise aginst doing any kind of object-oriented work until you feel
very comfortable with references.
Joseph
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