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On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Rafael Garcia-Suarez
<rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, binary logical operators work on strings and on numbers. Which
> is a source of problems in perl. (and also why one should really not
> rely on fallback for those) I suggest a little note in overload.pm to
> document the state with overload and logical ops as a potential
> gotcha, but I don't think we can do better.
What if the part that forces the result of overload '""' to be a
string got struck? There is nothing in the fallback code aside from
the convention of "" tending to be a string that indicates that
$_[0]->{n} should be a string, therefore overload must be doing the
conversion instead of making an accurate copy and letting the user of
the result convert it to a string if required.
Another possibility, heavier than identifying and deleting one line of code,
would be to create a bit-vector mode of expression besides string and number and
allow overload to directly allow access to "as-a-BV" perhaps with a '0|'
overload key, which would be defined to fallback to either '""' or '0+' instead
of punting to documenting a here-be-dragons warning. Although without
complete refactoring of everything to support this new mode, currently
done with a heuristic (has PVOK flag? string : number (float or
integer)) AIUI that might become a lot of work
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