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Dan Sugalski wrote: > You already can overload the assignment operator. That's what tie is. > > Overloading as it stands now works on the value, while tying works on > the variable. (a contents vs container thing) Overload is a value thing, > tying a container thing. Assignment is an operation on the variable > rather than the value, so it should live in the world of tying, not > overloading. But I need both overloading (to automatically handle the comparison operators) _and_ tie (to prevent the overloaded magic from being lost through simple assignment). Can I do both? My initial tests show that I can use tie to manage set/get, but then I lose the overloading. John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4501 Forbes Boulevard Suite H Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5748Thread Previous | Thread Next