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On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 7:23 PM Sam Kington <sam@illuminated.co.uk> wrote: > On 31 Aug 2023, at 16:56, Paul LeoNerd Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> > wrote: > > We feel that these are weird cornercases that ideally should behave in > a more flexible, predictable and consistent manner. It suggests that it > would be nice to have a real builtin function to request that a value > get squashed down to a plain string - by invoking the '""' overload if > necessary. There's already a core OP_STRINGIFY to invoke here, so it > seems simple enough to wrap it as a new builtin - builtin::stringify. > If perl provided such a stringify function, then in the presence of the > "please make join respect overloading" flag that one-argument > specialcase can be removed, as now that special behaviour is no longer > required. > > > Frankly, I want this anyway, because I’m tired of remembering whether > $some_object->method->other_method->some_other_object wants to be > stringified with ->to_string, ->as_string, ->stringify or whatever. > > (And because the object is something I got as a result of a bunch of > method calls, I can’t just wrap it in double quotes, because interpolation > won’t kick in.) > Agreed, both functions sound generally quite convenient -DanThread Previous | Thread Next