Re: RFC 48 (v2) Objects should have builtin stringifying

[John Porter]

Michael Fowler wrote:
> 
> I think a stringified reference is worth seeing, moreso than a simple undef,
> for debugging purposes if nothing else.

I personally would like to have the stringification of refs be a
symmetric operation, i.e. such a string should dwim in a ref context:

        $r = bless {}, 'Foo';
        $s = "$r";
        ref($s); # True.
        $s->bar; # call method of Foo.

I guess that means the deref operator would have be implicitly overloaded
for strings...

-- 
John Porter