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On Thu, 22 May 2003 20:52:17 -0400, jpeacock@rowman.com wrote: >Dan Sugalski wrote: >> >> 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. > >So that is a vote in favor??? ;~) > >As I understand it, the reason you cannot mix your magics is that overload only >operates on RV's, so there is no magic table to lookup the set magic callback >from. There is no reason to *fully* emulate tie, since there is already a get >magic (overload stringify/numify) that covers that case. How could tie magic (or any other get magic) and overloading coexist? Doesn't seem like a bug to me. On the other hand, I can't think of any reason you couldn't combine set magic and overload. But that doesn't mean it would work...Thread Previous | Thread Next