[Fwd] Net::LDAP

[Graham B. <gb...@po...>]

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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:45:55 -0800
To: gb...@po...
From: Jose Olivares <JAO...@LB...>
Subject: Net::LDAP
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Hi Graham -

My name is Jose Olivares and I have just gotten access to the Net::LDAP
module for Perl.

I have done lots of programming, but I have not done any object oriented

programming.  I am however quite familiar with concepts like
subroutines (methods in OOP?), data structures (objects?), etc.

I am looking at the writeup for Net::LDAP.  Under the Synopsis section
are a couple of examples.  I can understand the code pretty much, even
if
I don't know the exact actions that are happening.  However, there is a
piece that mystifies me.  There is a line that says:

$mesg->code && die $mesg->error;

I can see that "$mesg->code" refers to a success or failure return code
and it
looks like the "die $mesg->error" part puts out the error message that
is in
the $mesg structure (I assume it is a structure).  But taken together I
don't
really understand the above statement.  What is the statement doing and
how
does it know what to do?

Thanks.

- Jose Olivares


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