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Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> writes: >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. That is my recollection too. I would quite like this fixed too - but it was tricky. I got as far as tracing the control path once. -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next