Notice how there's no memory to deallocate in the destructor? That's
something that Perl takes care of for you all by itself.
+Alternatively, you could use the Class::Data::Inheritable module from
+CPAN.
+
+
=head2 Accessing Class Data
It turns out that this is not really a good way to go about handling
call a class method (one expecting a string argument) on an
object (one expecting a reference), or vice versa.
-Z<>From the C++ perspective, all methods in Perl are virtual.
+From the C++ perspective, all methods in Perl are virtual.
This, by the way, is why they are never checked for function
prototypes in the argument list as regular builtin and user-defined
functions can be.
and
L<overload>.
+L<perlboot> is a kinder, gentler introduction to object-oriented
+programming.
+
+L<perltooc> provides more detail on class data.
+
+Some modules which might prove interesting are Class::Accessor,
+Class::Class, Class::Contract, Class::Data::Inheritable,
+Class::MethodMaker and Tie::SecureHash
+
+
=head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
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