On Wednesday 20 September 2006 07:53, demerphq wrote: > On 9/20/06, Smylers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If you get a reference to a blessed object and that object has > > overloaded stringification then please just treat it as a string, not a > > reference. > You of course are aware of what a pain it is to apply this logic? Multi-dispatch or, as Jonathan suggested, named parameters really seem like the way to go. Rolling your own dispatch checker (or worse, using ref() or even Scalar::Util::blessed() without a really good reason) is a code smell to me. -- c