[Sheflug] Object Oriented Perl question

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Lowe <richlowe [at] btinternet.com> writes:

    Richard> Can anyone point me at any documentation that explains
    Richard> how to use an object, with an array of objects in it.

After looking at perlobj(1p) and perltoot(1p), my immediate reaction
is "`info python-tut' is your friend."  That's probably not very
helpful.[1]

    Richard> so i end up with a call like

    Richard> $blum->bar()[1]->name("fred");

Break it up into temp variables

@t = $blum->bar()
$u = $t[1]
$u->name("fred")

If that doesn't work your class defs are hosed.

Recombine with full parentheses, and then start removing "redundant"
parenthese until it breaks again.


Footnotes: 
[1]  It does explain why the various deb{conf,helper,...} packages are
so buggy.  You can't tell the difference between Perl code and random
strings without running it.

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