On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 02:50:27PM -0700, Steve Canfield wrote:
> Will there be automatic calling of the deserialization method for objects,
> so that code like this DWIMs...
>
> my Date $bday = 'June 25, 2002';
What sort of dwimmery do you desire?
It's my understanding that variable declarations as above are just
"suggestions" to perl that the variable will have the shape and
semantics of a Date object. No constructor will be called to create a
Date object. Though I think there are forms that will invoke a
constructor, but I don't know what they are off hand. Maybe
my Date $bday = new Date 'June 25, 2002'; # or
my Date('June 25, 2002') $bday; # or
my Date $bday; $bday.new('June 25, 2002'); # or
# something else entirely.
-Scott
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