We're doing the fancy-schmancy Protocol.xml stuff here, so I'll explain it here. Protocol.xml contains a number of "OSCAR protocol elements". One <define> block is one OSCAR protocol elemennt. When the module is first loaded, Protocol.xml is parsed a...

Keys in hashes tied to this class will be treated as numbers. This class also preserves the ordering of its keys....

OSCAR screennames don't compare like normal scalars; they're case and whitespace-insensitive. This is a tied hash class that has that behavior for its keys....

This class overrides a few operators to transparently get appropriate behavior for OSCAR screennames. Screennames are case-insensitive and whitespace-insensitive. So, if you do $a = Net::OSCAR::Screenname->new("Some Dude"); print "Yay!\n" if $a eq "s...

This handles conversion of Net::OSCAR to "OSCAR buddylist format", and the sending of buddylist changes to the OSCAR server....