Extracting information back out of a DBH

[David Cantrell]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:44:26AM +0000, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:

> Perl question: what does tied do and why is it used in this situation?

tied() is the opposite of tie().  It gives you access to the underlying
data structure/object that tie() has magicked into have the interface
of a traditional array/hash/whatever.

It is, incidentally, incorrect to say that it's a hangover from the bad
old days before OO perl was well-understood.  tied() is useful for those
cases where, as well as providing the semantics of a normal hash/array,
you *also* want to give access to other less-commonly-used methods.

See Data::Transactional for what I think is a good example.

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