[perl #132488] Storable: add a flag to control 'bless' and 'tie'

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I would like to open a discussion and get feedback on a Storable patch that I am considering to submit to blead.
The idea is to introduce a flag in order to let a user disable or not: "bless" and "tie" features from Storable.

You can read the patch online here: https://github.com/p5h/perl5demo/pull/33

As the patch stands the original behavior is preserved. "bless" and "tie" are enabled when storing/retrieving objects.
We could consider to change (or not) this default value in the future.
For this reason, the patch introduces a constant 'Storable::FLAGS_COMPAT' to guarantee over time a consistent behavior.
	$Storable::flags = Storable::FLAGS_COMPAT;

Then a customer can disable both "bless" and "tie" by setting the flag to 0, in their script (no guarantee that any other dependency
would set it to a different value, but this is something else).
	$Storable::flags = 0; # to disable bless and tie support when 

Or users can simply disable one or the other
	$Storable::flags = Storable::BLESS_OK;
	$Storable::flags = Storable::TIE_OK;

Any concerns about such a patch?
Are you ok with setting the default value to "Storable::BLESS_OK | Storable::TIE_OK" (which is also Storable::FLAGS_COMPAT)?
Would you consider changing the default value in the future?

thanks
nicolas

• [perl #132488] Storable: add a flag to control 'bless' and 'tie' by Nicolas R .
• Re: [perl #132488] Storable: add a flag to control 'bless' and 'tie' by demerphq
• Re: [perl #132488] Storable: add a flag to control 'bless' and 'tie' by Tony Cook