Re: [PATCH] Alter the package qr// gets blessed into via a pragma

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Moin,

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 23:04:28 Tels wrote:
> Moin,
>
> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 20:11:14 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> > All regular expressions constructed with qr// are currently blessed
> > into the "Regexp" package. This can be altered on a per-regexp basis
> > by doing:
> >
> > my $re = bless qr/Ponies/ => "My::Regexp";
> >
> > But there's no way to alter the default.
> >
> > The attached patch allows for specifying what package regular
> > expressions are blessed into by setting a package name in $^H{regobj},
> > this would allow for writing extensions like the attached
> > re::object::Test (which does nothing at the moment except retrieve the
> > regexp struct from the object).
>
> I really don't like the addition of new globals, wouldn't that really
> screw over code that does something like this:
>
> 	my $qr = $qr;

	my $qr = qr//;			# sorry, typo :)

Currently there is no way to say something like:

	$qr = Regexp->new(/foo/);

or?

> 	if (ref($qr) eq 'Regexp'))	# you probably shouldnt do this anyway?
> 	  {
> 	  }
>
> I think this should still work, but I am not sure:
>
> 	if ($qr->isa('Regexp'))
> 	  {
> 	  }
>
> or?
>
> all the best,
>
> tels



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