Re: "Can't bless non-reference" error, bug or not?

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Chunyan Wei wrote:

> I am working on something using JPL from Perl side and have got
> some errors with the bless function in "AutoLoader.pm":
> 
>      >>>Can't bless non-reference value at AutoLoader.pm line 237.
> 
> The line 237 of Autoloader is:
> 	bless $self->$callmethod($mid, \@_), $blesspack;
> 
> I have solved my problem by adding a line to check the reference:
> 
> 	if ( ref $self->$callmethod($mid, \@_)) {
>     		bless $self->$callmethod($mid, \@_), $blesspack;
> 	}
>  
> Brian, what is your opinion?
>

I haven't had my hands in the code for quite some time, so I'm afraid I
can't intelligently comment - it doesn't ring a bell with me, but it looks
like a reasonable fix, since it checks before calling a method.

Brian Jepson * ([email protected])  *  http://users.ids.net/~bjepson