Joseph F. Ryan:
# Brent Dax wrote
#
# >To tell you the truth, I don't consider arrayrefs references
# anymore.
# >They're just Array objects that don't happen to be in @whatever
# >symbols. I don't know if this is the official view, but that fits my
# >brain better.
# >
#
# So you're saying that classes should stringify to a
# pretty-print of their public members?
No, because that wouldn't reveal enough for an equality check. At the
same time, however, exposing private members would be wrong, especially
since editing the string and creating a new instance from it would allow
the user to manipulate private members.
What I'm saying is that .str and .identity (for lack of a better name)
are identical in Object, but classes should feel free to override .str
if they have a better WTDI. The built-in classes (Array, Hash, etc.)
should override .str to yield their members in some format (probably
influenced by properties).
--Brent Dax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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