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•Re: Perl Singletons

by merlyn (Sage)
on Jul 19, 2002 at 19:52 UTC ( [id://183419]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Perl Singletons

There's no point in even returning an instance. Just return the package name: 
package DBconnector;
my $dbh;
sub new { return __PACKAGE__ }
sub connect {
  my $pointless = shift;
  $dbh ||= DBI->connect($@);
}

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and so on.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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Re^2: Perl Singletons
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 19, 2002 at 20:44 UTC
    $dbh ||= DBI->connect($@);

    You probably mean @_ there.. at least I can't see an eval anywhere *grin*

    ++ tho. :)

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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