On Everything 2 the "bless" command is available to the gods usergroup only. The function grants a user 10 GP. This is usually in reward for a particularly good writeup or being extremely helpful in the chatterbox.

You can check how many times you've been blessed by looking in on the Golden Trinkets document. Each 'trinket' was one blessing.

See the voting/experience system for details on GP, XP and levels on E2.

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E2 Glossary

Perl bless

After saying bless reference [, class], the thingy referred to (by reference) becomes an object in the package class (by default, the current package). This means that a method call on a reference to that thingy will search for the method in package class.

So after

$y = 42;
$x = \$y;
bless $x, 'Foo';

a call of $x->print(11) will be translated to Foo::print($x,11) if Foo::print exists (and if it doesn't, Perl will search for an appropriate method using @Foo::ISA and Foo::AUTOLOAD, as per the usual rules for inheritance).

bless is often the last function called in a constructor (usually the routine Foo::new). As such, it returns its first argument, after blessing.

While typically objects are implemented as hash thingies, as the above example shows any scalar reference can be blessed.

Bless (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blessed (#) or Blest; p. pr. & vb. n. Blessing.] [OE. blessien, bletsen, AS. bletsian, bledsian, bloedsian, fr. bld blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling with blood. See Blood.]

1.

To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. ii. 3.

2.

To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity or happiness upon; to grant divine favor to.

The quality of mercy is . . . twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. Shak.

It hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue forever before thee. 1 Chron. xvii. 27 (R. V. )

3.

To express a wish or prayer for the happiness of; to invoke a blessing upon; -- applied to persons.

Bless them which persecute you. Rom. xii. 14.

4.

To invoke or confer beneficial attributes or qualities upon; to invoke or confer a blessing on, -- as on food.

Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them. Luke ix. 16.

5.

To make the sign of the cross upon; to cross (one's self).

[Archaic]

Holinshed.

6.

To guard; to keep; to protect.

[Obs.]

7.

To praise, or glorify; to extol for excellences.

Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Ps. ciii. 1.

8.

To esteem or account happy; to felicitate.

The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jer. iv. 3.

9.

To wave; to brandish.

[Obs.]

And burning blades about their heads do bless. Spenser.

Round his armed head his trenchant blade he blest. Fairfax.

⇒ This is an old sense of the word, supposed by Johnson, Nares, and others, to have been derived from the old rite of blessing a field by directing the hands to all parts of it. "In drawing [their bow] some fetch such a compass as though they would turn about and bless all the field."

Ascham.

Bless me! Bless us! an exclamation of surprise. Milton. -- To bless from, to secure, defend, or preserve from. "Bless me from marrying a usurer." Shak.

To bless the doors from nightly harm. Milton.

-- To bless with, To be blessed with, to favor or endow with; to be favored or endowed with; as, God blesses us with health; we are blessed with happiness.

 

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