Thank you all the monks who have replied with so much explation.
Today I was reading
Programmaing Perl, 3rd Edition by
Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant and found out a way to modify the code which I posted in my previous mail to implement private method. The modified code is
{
package Animal;
use Carp;
use overload();
sub new
{
my $class = shift;
my $name = shift;
bless \$name, $class;
}
sub name
{
my $self = shift;
ref $self ? $$self : "an unnamed $self";
}
sub speak
{
my $class = shift;
print "a $$class goes ", $class->sound, "!\n";
}
sub eat
{
my $self = shift;
my $food = shift;
print $self->name, " eats $food.\n";
}
my $private_method = sub {
my $self = shift;
print "From private method\n";
};
sub Private_Method
{
my $self = shift;
print "kk::$self->{private_var}\n";
if (0 == index overload::StrVal($self), __PACKAGE__,0)
{
$self->$private_method();
}
}
}
{
package Horse;
use vars '@ISA';
@ISA = qw (Animal);
sub sound {"neigh"};
}
{
package Sheep;
use vars '@ISA';
@ISA = qw (Animal);
sub sound {"blahhhhhhhh"};
}
my $horse1 = Horse->new("H1");
$horse1->speak;
print "Horse sounds ", Horse->sound, "\n";
$horse1->eat("hay");
Sheep->eat("grass");
Sheep->speak();
#$horse1->Private_Method; #I can not access this
Animal->Private_Method;
Is this method OK? Is there any loophole? Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-Pijush