Tie::ToObject(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Tie::ToObject(3pm)NAME
Tie::ToObject - Tie to an existing object.
SYNOPSIS
use Tie::ToObject;
my $stolen = tied(%something);
tie %something_else, 'Tie::ToObject', $stolen;
DESCRIPTION
While "tie" in perldoc allows tying to an arbitrary object, the class in question must support this in it's implementation of "TIEHASH",
"TIEARRAY" or whatever.
This class provides a very tie constructor that simply returns the object it was given as it's first argument.
This way side effects of calling "$object->TIEHASH" are avoided.
This is used in Data::Visitor in order to tie a variable to an already existing object. This is also useful for cloning, when you want to
clone the internal state object instead of going through the tie interface for that variable.
VERSION CONTROL
This module is maintained using Darcs. You can get the latest version from <http://nothingmuch.woobling.org/code>, and use "darcs send" to
commit changes.
AUTHOR
Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2008 Yuval Kogman. All rights reserved
This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.12.3 2008-01-17 Tie::ToObject(3pm)
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Tie::RefHash(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Tie::RefHash(3pm)NAME
Tie::RefHash - use references as hash keys
SYNOPSIS
require 5.004;
use Tie::RefHash;
tie HASHVARIABLE, 'Tie::RefHash', LIST;
tie HASHVARIABLE, 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable', LIST;
untie HASHVARIABLE;
DESCRIPTION
This module provides the ability to use references as hash keys if you first "tie" the hash variable to this module. Normally, only the
keys of the tied hash itself are preserved as references; to use references as keys in hashes-of-hashes, use Tie::RefHash::Nestable,
included as part of Tie::RefHash.
It is implemented using the standard perl TIEHASH interface. Please see the "tie" entry in perlfunc(1) and perltie(1) for more
information.
The Nestable version works by looking for hash references being stored and converting them to tied hashes so that they too can have
references as keys. This will happen without warning whenever you store a reference to one of your own hashes in the tied hash.
EXAMPLE
use Tie::RefHash;
tie %h, 'Tie::RefHash';
$a = [];
$b = {};
$c = *main;
$d = "gunk";
$e = sub { 'foo' };
%h = ($a => 1, $b => 2, $c => 3, $d => 4, $e => 5);
$a->[0] = 'foo';
$b->{foo} = 'bar';
for (keys %h) {
print ref($_), "
";
}
tie %h, 'Tie::RefHash::Nestable';
$h{$a}->{$b} = 1;
for (keys %h, keys %{$h{$a}}) {
print ref($_), "
";
}
THREAD SUPPORT
Tie::RefHash fully supports threading using the "CLONE" method.
STORABLE SUPPORT
Storable hooks are provided for semantically correct serialization and cloning of tied refhashes.
RELIC SUPPORT
This version of Tie::RefHash seems to no longer work with 5.004. This has not been throughly investigated. Patches welcome ;-)
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself
MAINTAINER
Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch@woobling.org>
AUTHOR
Gurusamy Sarathy gsar@activestate.com
'Nestable' by Ed Avis ed@membled.com
SEE ALSO perl(1), perlfunc(1), perltie(1)perl v5.16.2 2012-10-11 Tie::RefHash(3pm)