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At 5:24 PM -0400 5/22/03, John Peacock wrote:
>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.
That's something I think you can't do, and arguably a bug. I'm pretty
sure you can have tie magic, or overloading magic, but not both.
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