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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-07-11 19:11:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 2000-07-11 19:11:18 +0000 |
| commit | be3174d2532d82826fc0aa416a83ef8ce0f07732 (patch) | |
| tree | dcb2f29d4e1d0a6db01d7d1c2c96304de9c13b8d /pod/perltie.pod | |
| parent | 5e5f20b507b6c3b7749b1f2f6cfd8a156eca9deb (diff) | |
| download | perl-be3174d2532d82826fc0aa416a83ef8ce0f07732.tar.gz | |
integrate cfgperl changes#6268..6282 into mainline
p4raw-link: @6282 on //depot/cfgperl: d4817f5b97d4072a6efac47844b617245b179f2c
p4raw-link: @6268 on //depot/cfgperl: 22e04bdb3a09a4c369fd1666143349eab2eba9d4
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6366
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6365 'copy in' lib/Net/Ping.pm
lib/Text/Wrap.pm t/lib/dprof.t t/lib/dumper-ovl.t
t/lib/hostname.t (@5586..) lib/Pod/Html.pm (@5608..)
t/lib/ipc_sysv.t (@5812..) t/lib/dumper.t (@5972..)
ext/File/Glob/Glob.pm (@6026..) lib/Pod/Man.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm
(@6034..) t/lib/anydbm.t (@6072..) lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
(@6156..) pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltie.pod (@6206..)
utils/h2xs.PL (@6280..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6282 'merge in' vms/vms.c
(@6238..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6277 'copy in' pod/perlfunc.pod
(@6276..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6273 'ignore' perlapi.h
(@6243..) embedvar.h (@6254..) 'merge in' perlapi.c (@6243..)
embed.h (@6254..) embed.pl objXSUB.h op.c proto.h (@6269..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6270 'copy in' t/op/taint.t
(@5857..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6269 'copy in' doop.c (@6263..)
'ignore' toke.c (@6261..)
p4raw-integrated: from //depot/cfgperl@6268 'copy in' t/op/sprintf.t
(@6267..)
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perltie.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perltie.pod | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perltie.pod b/pod/perltie.pod index 49bf98999c..b39d7d5336 100644 --- a/pod/perltie.pod +++ b/pod/perltie.pod @@ -310,14 +310,14 @@ the following output demonstrates: =head2 Tying Hashes -As the first Perl data type to be tied (see dbmopen()), hashes have the -most complete and useful tie() implementation. A class implementing a -tied hash should define the following methods: TIEHASH is the constructor. -FETCH and STORE access the key and value pairs. EXISTS reports whether a -key is present in the hash, and DELETE deletes one. CLEAR empties the -hash by deleting all the key and value pairs. FIRSTKEY and NEXTKEY -implement the keys() and each() functions to iterate over all the keys. -And DESTROY is called when the tied variable is garbage collected. +Hashes were the first Perl data type to be tied (see dbmopen()). A class +implementing a tied hash should define the following methods: TIEHASH is +the constructor. FETCH and STORE access the key and value pairs. EXISTS +reports whether a key is present in the hash, and DELETE deletes one. +CLEAR empties the hash by deleting all the key and value pairs. FIRSTKEY +and NEXTKEY implement the keys() and each() functions to iterate over all +the keys. And DESTROY is called when the tied variable is garbage +collected. If this seems like a lot, then feel free to inherit from merely the standard Tie::Hash module for most of your methods, redefining only the |