Recipe 4.2: Inheriting from Builtin Types

Last Updated: Sep 8, 2003 Status: Draft

Problem:  

You want your class to inherit from a builtin type.

Solution:  

Just do it:

class MyScalar is scalar {
    ...
}

Discussion:

Subclassing builtin types is an extremely powerful way to create objects that act, for almost all intensive purposes, like those builtin types. See Section 6 to learn what builtin types exist in perl, and how to subclass them.

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