Complex Objects in Perl

From: John Smith (someone_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:20:37 -0500

Can someone point me to an example of how to implement and access the kind
of object shown below?

Most of the examples if found are an object that contains one other object.
I need to create an object that contains a hash of sub-objects each
sub-object is made up of a number of different objects and an array of an
object type.

Object1 contains scalars

Object2 Contains scalars

Object3 contains scalars (OK that part is easy)

Object4 contains an Object1, an Object2, an array of Object3, and scalars

Object5 contains a hash of Object4 and scalars

Object6 contains a hash of Object5

In general I will get or set each element in each object individually.

The ability to enumerate the object3s in the Object6 and the ability to

Enumerate through the object4s an object5 are the only other complex
accesses I need.

Thanks,

-Pat

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