NAME

Rubyish::Object - the parent class of all classes in Rubyish

DESCRIPTION

This implements the "Object" class in ruby.

Baiscally if you are defining a Rubyish class, you should not use this class as the base class, but just say use Rubyish; in your code. This is almost all for the internals of Rubyish Perl.

FUNCTIONS

new()

The default constructor for all sub-classes.

object_id(), __id__()

Returns the internal address of the object_id

__send__($name, @args)

Invokes method by string

package Animal;
use base Rubyish::Object;

def hello {
    my ($self, $arg) = @_;
    "hello, $arg.";
}

1;

my $dog = Animal->new;
print $dog->__send__("hello", "perl"); # "hello, perl."

to_yaml()

Serialize the object to YAML.

methods()

Return a list of names of instance methods.

inpsect()

Returns a string containing a human-readable representation of obj.

ancestors()

All ancestors of this object.

clone

Produces a shollow copy a object. New object would not have the same memory address as ordinary object.

AUTHOR

Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>, shelling shelling@cpan.org

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2008,2009, Kang-min Liu <gugod@gugod.org>.

This is free software, licensed under:

The MIT (X11) License

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