Net::H...ateChat(3pm)

💖 Net::Hotline::PrivateChat(3pm) — the little private-chat object that lives in your Net::Hotline::Client's walls 💖

okay bestie, listen up ✨ this page is from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual, and it's all about Net::Hotline::PrivateChat — a private chat object that's used internally by Net::Hotline::Client. she's not the main character of your script, she's the backstage crew. 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Net::Hotline::PrivateChat — a private chat object used internally by Net::Hotline::Client. lowkey she's shy, she doesn't want to be instantiated by you directly, she just wants to hold your chat info. 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Net::Hotline::PrivateChat;

$pchat = new Net::Hotline::PrivateChat;

$pchat->subject("Issue 1: Monkey beards");
$pchat->reference(0x313337);
...

like yes, you can do this, but read the next section before you get any ideas 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Net::Hotline::PrivateChat is a simple class for storing and retrieving private chat information. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🧚

bestie, fr fr — you should never have to create your own Net::Hotline::PrivateChat objects when you're using Net::Hotline::Client. the client handles that for you, no cap. all you should ever need is getting attributes (and, to a lesser extent, setting them). that's the whole job. 💀

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🎀 CONSTRUCTION 🎀

new REF, USERLIST, SUBJECT

creates a new Net::Hotline::PrivateChat object, and she comes with three lil pieces of info:

• REF — a number
• USERLIST — a reference to a hash of Net::Hotline::User objects, keyed by socket number
• SUBJECT — a string

and if you forget any of these arguments? they get set to undef. no drama, no error, just undef. 🙈

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👑 METHODS 👑

all the Net::Hotline::PrivateChat methods are simple attribute get/set routines. the way that works is:

• if you give one an argument, it sets that attribute
• in all cases, it returns the current value of the attribute

so it's giving very much "give me a value and I'll update, otherwise I'll just hand you what I've got." iconic. 🌈

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• reference NUM — the private chat reference number. ⭐
• subject TEXT — the subject of the private chat. 🍓
• userlist HASHREF — the list of users in the private chat. 💜

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

John C. Siracusa (siracusa@mindspring.com) — the legend, the icon, the moment. 👑

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💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright(c) 1999 by John Siracusa. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. 💅

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one shipped as part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation in perl v5.32.0, dated 2021-01-09 — so if you're reading the Net::H...ateChat(3pm) page, you're looking at the goods from that exact release. slay, go forth, and don't make your own private chat objects. 🎀✨🦋