On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:53:17 -0200, Branden wrote:
>It appears you're blessing one reference and returning another... like
>
> sub new {
> my $key;
> my $a = \$key;
> my $b = \$key;
> bless $a;
> return $b;
> }
>
>I think the problem is not with the overloading magic, but with the code
>snippet...
A recent thread on comp.lang.perl.misc discussed how bless() works with
the reference, but alledgedly, it's the underlying thing that gets
blessed, not the reference itself.
my $a = \$x;
my $b = \$x;
bless $a, 'FOO';
print $b;
-->
FOO=SCALAR(0x8a652e4)
It sure looks that they're right. Oh, this is perl 5.6.0.
--
Bart.
