9.3. Accessing the Instance DataBecause you get the instance as the first parameter, you can now access the instance-specific data. In this case, let's add a way to get at the name: { package Horse; @ISA = qw(Animal); sub sound { "neigh" } sub name { my $self = shift; $$self; } } Now you call for the name: print $tv_horse->name, " says ", $tv_horse->sound, "\n"; Inside Horse::name, the @_ array contains just $tv_horse, which the shift stores into $self. It's traditional to shift the first parameter into a variable named $self for instance methods, so stay with that unless you have strong reasons otherwise. Perl places no significance on the name $self, however.[41]
Then $self is dereferenced as a scalar reference, yielding Mr. Ed. The result is: Mr. Ed says neigh. Copyright © 2003 O'Reilly & Associates. All rights reserved. |
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