On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:10:40PM -0800, Darren Duncan wrote: : When I last asked a related question here, I was told that simply : returning an attribute will allow the caller to modify the original : attribute by default.
That used to be true for arrays and hashes, but I just changed my mind on it. (Scalars always copy.) : I wanted to make sure this didn't happen. It : is possible that there was a misunderstanding regarding the previous : question, and the default action is in fact a copy. See my other message--it should make you a little happier. I had not sufficiently thought through what would happen with autogenerated read-only accessors in scalar context. Larry
