What is MyApp? What does "use base" do?

[leegold2]

Hi,

I've been searching for answers.

From a wxPerl program:

use Wx;
package MyApp;
use base 'Wx::App';


What is difference between a module and a package?

What exactly is MyApp? It's a package but I can't find any documentation on it.

Tried to find info in "use base" but no simple explainations. What does "use base" do?

Thanks

 

[MillerH]

There is no difference between a module and package normally, except you can define more than 1 package in a module file (.pm).

MyApp is just the name of your programs namespace or package.

use base creates a parent-child relationship between the two objects. Read about Inheritance at

http://perldoc.perl.org/perltoot.html