What do the ->, => and :: symbols mean?

The -> is the "infix dereference operator". In other words it is the means by which one calls a sub with a pass by reference (among other things you can do with ->). As stated above most things in calls to perl/Tk routines are passed by reference. The -> is used in perl just as in C or C++. (Most of the widget primitives are elements of the Tk:: "perl class".) A simple example of dereferencing would be: $x = { def => bar }; # $x is a reference to an anon. hash print $x->{def},"/n"; # prints ``bar''

Note that in the case of calling perl/Tk subs there may be more than one way to call by reference. Compare my($top) = MainWindow->new;

with my($top) = new MainWindow;

But in general you will be making extensive use of calls like: $top -> Widge-type;

There is a clear and succint discussion of references, dereferences, and even closures in man perlref(1) or see the perl 5 info page at: http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/perl5.html

The use of the => operator is quite common in perl/Tk scripts. Quoting from man perlop(1):

The => digraph is simply a synonym for the comma operator. It's useful for documenting arguments that come in pairs.

You could say that => is used for aesthetic or organizational reasons. Note in the following how hard it is to keep track of whether or not every -option has an argument: $query -> Button(-in,/$reply,-side,'left',-padx,2m,-pady, 2m,-ipadx,2m,-ipady,1m)->pack(-side,'bottom');

As opposed to: $query ->Button( -in => /$reply, -side => 'left', -padx => 2m, -pady => 2m, -ipadx => 2m, -ipady => 1m )->pack(-side => 'bottom');

By the way if you wanted the numeric "greater than or equal" you would use >= not =>.

While the :: symbol can be thought of as similar to the period in a C struct, it is much more akin to the :: class scope operator in C++: a.b.c; /* something in C */ a::b::c(); // function in C++ $a::b::c; # a scalar in Perl 5 @a::b::c; # a list in Perl 5 %a::b::c; # an associative array or "hash" in Perl 5 &a::b::c; # a function in Perl 5

It is also analogous to the single forward quotation mark in perl 4: $main'foo; # a $foo scalar in perl 4 $main::foo; # a $foo scalar in Perl 5

For backward compatibility perl 5 allows you to refer to $main'foo but $main::foo is recommended.

譯文：

符號(hào)->，=>和::分別表示什么意思？

‘- >'符號(hào)是“插入式解引用操作符”（infix dereference operator）。換句話說，它是調(diào)用由引用傳遞參數(shù)的子程序的方法（當(dāng)然，還有其它的作用）。正如我們上面所提到的，在調(diào)用Perl/Tk的函數(shù)的時(shí)候，大部分參數(shù)都是通過引用傳遞的。Perl中的‘->'功能就和它們?cè)贑或C++中一樣。（大部分原始的組件都是Tk中的Perl類的元素。）下面是一個(gè)簡單的解引用的例子：

$x = { def => bar }; # $x是指向一個(gè)匿名hash的引用

print $x->{def},"/n"; # 輸出``bar''

注意，在調(diào)用Perl/Tk的子程序時(shí)有多種不同的方法進(jìn)行引用。我們可以比較一下：

my($top) = MainWindow->new;

和

my($top) = new MainWindow;

兩種方法的不同。

但是，一般來說我們通常都使用這樣的方法調(diào)用：

$top -> Widge-type;

在perlref的手冊(cè)頁中有詳盡的關(guān)于引用、解引用、和閉包的討論，或者也可以在下面的網(wǎng)頁上查看Perl5的信息頁：

http://www.metronet.com/perlinfo/perl5.html

在Perl/Tk的腳本中‘=>'操作符時(shí)很常見的。perlop手冊(cè)頁中說：關(guān)系操作符=>只是逗號(hào)操作符的替代物，它在顯示成對(duì)的參數(shù)時(shí)非常有用。

你可以認(rèn)為=>只是為了程序的美觀和易維護(hù)而被使用的。請(qǐng)看，在下面的例子中，要想監(jiān)測是否每個(gè)選項(xiàng)都有對(duì)應(yīng)的值，是多么的困難：

$query -> Button(-in,/$reply,-side,'left',-padx,2m,-pady,

2m,-ipadx,2m,-ipady,1m)->pack(-side,'bottom');

而下面的這個(gè)則相反：

$query ->Button( -in => /$reply,

-side => 'left',

-padx => 2m,

-pady => 2m,

-ipadx => 2m,

-ipady => 1m

)->pack(-side => 'bottom');

順便說一下，如果你需要用數(shù)字“大于等于”的符號(hào)，你應(yīng)該用“>=”而不是“=>”。

“::”符號(hào)可以認(rèn)為是與C語言中的“.”相似的，而它更像C++中的::類范圍操作符。

a.b.c; /* C語言中的 */

a::b::c(); // C++ 中的函數(shù)

$a::b::c; # Perl 5中的標(biāo)量

@a::b::c; # Perl 5中的列表

%a::b::c; # Perl 5中的關(guān)聯(lián)數(shù)組（或叫hash）

&a::b::c; # Perl 5中的函數(shù)

另外，Perl4中的單撇號(hào)也具有相同的功能：

$main'foo; # Perl 4中的標(biāo)量$foo

$main::foo; # Perl 5中的標(biāo)量$foo

出于向后兼容的考慮，Perl5也運(yùn)行使用$main'foo，但是仍推薦使用$main::foo。

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