Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> writes: > On 6 Oct 2003, at 17:52, Gisle Aas wrote: > > > Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> writes: > > > >>>> $ perl -wle 'print ref bless [] => 0' > >>>> 0 > >>> > >>> I would be tempted to make that bless illegal. > >> > >> I dont see why we should treat that specially. People can always bless > >> into a package which has overload and have that return false. > > > > I don't think you are able to overload on the class name. The HvNAME > > is just a char*. > > I did not mean overload the package name itself, but rather > > package False; > > use overload bool => sub { 0 } > > 1; > > Any reference blessed into that package will be false in a boolean > context. Sure. But since that does not make ref(bless [], "False") false so I don't see how this is relevant to whether bless $something, "0" should be allowed. Regards, GisleThread Previous | Thread Next