At 02:32 PM 2/6/2001 -0200, Branden wrote:
>I noticed I couldn't get it to work. The thing is that $x = ... makes a
>sv_setsv, what copies the value of the other SV (ST(0) in this case), but
>not its magic, and other stuff. Here is the difference between `variable'
>and `value'. In Perl5, at least, I could attach magic to a variable, but not
>to a value (AFAIK).
No, you attach the magic to a value. Perl just doesn't copy magic when it
copies data. Whether this is a good thing or not is up in the air. (Half
the time I want it to, the other half I don't...)
Dan
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