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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com> wrote:
> The attached patch makes "Package->$method" and "$obj->$method" call
> "&{}" overloading on $method whenever present.
> In that case, it is equivalent to "Package->$ret" and "$obj->$ret",
> where $ret is the value returned from the overloading callback ; except
> when $ret is a scalar reference, in which case $$ret is used as the
> method name.
I don't support this. When $method is an object, it could mean either
an indirect named method call or a fake method call using a coderef.
Perl assumes you mean a named method call so it calls the overloaded
stringification, eg.
$ perl -we '{ package X; use overload q/""/ => "str"; sub str { "say"
} } use IO::Handle; my $m = bless [], "X"; STDOUT->$m("Just another
Perl hacker,")'
Just another Perl hacker,
I think this is the right behaviour and it shouldn't be changed. We
can't have perl check both the string overloading and the coderef
overloading. The string overloading is the one we should check
because indirect named method calls are an important feature whereas
the calling a coderef this way is extra. Thus, I vote on don't apply.
Ambrus
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