using underscore in package

[soup_or_power]

Hi
I am trying to understand in some code I am required to maintain
the following declaration:

use base qw(BOB::_::Entity);

Can someone please explain what the underscore means?

Thanks in advance

 

[Matt Garrish]

Hi
I am trying to understand in some code I am required to maintain
the following declaration:

use base qw(BOB::_::Entity);

Can someone please explain what the underscore means?

It doesn't mean anything more than you're inheriting from the module
Entity.pm which is in a directory called \BOB\_\ (which is a little bizarre,
but whatever turns you on).

Matt

 

[Anno Siegel]

It doesn't mean anything more than you're inheriting from the module
Entity.pm which is in a directory called \BOB\_\ (which is a little bizarre,
but whatever turns you on).

Not necessarily. The base pragma doesn't require its base classes to be
loaded from a file, it is happy if they aren't empty (if anything at
all is defined in the package). The mystery class BOB::_::Entity could
be defined in the same file before "use base ...". The name is, of course,
unusual, but valid and not special at all.

Anno

 

[Matt Garrish]

Not necessarily. The base pragma doesn't require its base classes to be
loaded from a file, it is happy if they aren't empty (if anything at
all is defined in the package). The mystery class BOB::_::Entity could
be defined in the same file before "use base ...". The name is, of
course,
unusual, but valid and not special at all.

Very true.

Matt