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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 07:00:07AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de> wrote: > > Along similar lines I???d also like to eventualy see it become > > a fatal error to stringify a reference implicitly, since that > > often happens by accident and the resulting string is useless > > in most circumstances, but the silent apparent success of the > > operation leads to errors only turning up far away from where > > the stringification (ie. the real mistake) actually happened. > > > > I don???t know how popular this opinion is, though. > > To me, it seems consistent with the idea "use strict 'refs'" -- if > strictures are on, stringifying or numifying a reference should be a > fatal error. If someone needs it, they should use refaddr anyway > because of overloading. So to clarify, it should be fatal *unless* > it's a blessed object with numification or stringification > overloading. Which breaks existing code that uses strict, and the idiom of using the stringification of references as hash keys. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next