Understanding Perl’s bless and Its Role in Object-Oriented Programming

 In Perl, the bless function is central to object-oriented programming. It takes a reference (usually a hash) and associates it with a class (or package). This allows the reference to be treated as an object, enabling you to call methods on it and interact with it in an object-oriented way.

Let’s dive into what bless does, why it is useful, and provide some alternative examples to illustrate its functionality.

What Does bless Do?

In simple terms, bless takes a reference and ties it to a package, allowing Perl to treat the reference as an object. After blessing, you can use the -> syntax to call methods on the reference, and Perl will look for those methods in the package (or class) it is blessed into.

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