more check stuff

[spider.git] / perl / DXChannel.pm

diff --git a/perl/DXChannel.pm b/perl/DXChannel.pm
index 8b71dbff499d7946a83378b2938f6c54f6ea41c4..7a27a8f2bc3bd3a90eda6efaaf388e9c6bc312fc 100644 (file)
--- a/perl/DXChannel.pm
+++ b/perl/DXChannel.pm
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ sub send_now
        my $call = $self->{call};
        
        for (@_) {
-               chomp;
+#              chomp;
         my @lines = split /\n/;
                for (@lines) {
                        $conn->send_now("$sort$call|$_");
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ sub send                                            # this is always later and always data
        my $call = $self->{call};
 
        for (@_) {
-               chomp;
+#              chomp;
         my @lines = split /\n/;
                for (@lines) {
                        $conn->send_later("D$call|$_");
@@ -466,8 +466,13 @@ sub AUTOLOAD
        $name =~ s/.*:://o;
   
        confess "Non-existant field '$AUTOLOAD'" if !$valid{$name};
-       @_ ? $self->{$name} = shift : $self->{$name} ;
+
+       # this clever line of code creates a subroutine which takes over from autoload
+       # from OO Perl - Conway
+       *{$AUTOLOAD} = sub {@_ > 1 ? $_[0]->{$name} = $_[1] : $_[0]->{$name}} ;
+    @_ ? $self->{$name} = shift : $self->{$name} ;
 }
 
+
 1;
 __END__;