This method will be triggered when the C<untie> occurs. This can be useful
if the class needs to know when no further calls will be made. (Except DESTROY
-of course.) See below for more details.
+of course.) See L<The C<untie> Gotcha> below for more details.
=item DESTROY this
=item UNTIE this
-Will be called when C<untie> happens. (See below.)
+Will be called when C<untie> happens. (See L<The C<untie> Gotcha> below.)
=item DESTROY this
the tied variable is garbage collected.
If this seems like a lot, then feel free to inherit from merely the
-standard Tie::Hash module for most of your methods, redefining only the
+standard Tie::StdHash module for most of your methods, redefining only the
interesting ones. See L<Tie::Hash> for details.
Remember that Perl distinguishes between a key not existing in the hash,
=item UNTIE this
-This is called when C<untie> occurs.
+This is called when C<untie> occurs. See L<The C<untie> Gotcha> below.
=item DESTROY this
sub READ {
my $self = shift;
- my $$bufref = \$_[0];
+ my $bufref = \$_[0];
my(undef,$len,$offset) = @_;
print "READ called, \$buf=$bufref, \$len=$len, \$offset=$offset";
# add to $$bufref, set $len to number of characters read
=item UNTIE this
As with the other types of ties, this method will be called when C<untie> happens.
-It may be appropriate to "auto CLOSE" when this occurs.
+It may be appropriate to "auto CLOSE" when this occurs. See
+L<The C<untie> Gotcha> below.
=item DESTROY this
=head2 UNTIE this
You can define for all tie types an UNTIE method that will be called
-at untie().
+at untie(). See L<The C<untie> Gotcha> below.
=head2 The C<untie> Gotcha