In [1], Larry writes:
> [...] we left = in the language
> to provide (to the extent possible) the same semantics that it
> does in Perl 5. And when it comes to non-value types, there really
> are still references, even if we try not to talk about them much.
> So I think assignment is basically about copying around identities,
> where value types treat identity differently than object types (or
> at least, objects types that aren't pretending to be value types).
So, how does one get an object to pretend to be a value type for
purposes of assignment?
Currently if I do the following
class Dog { ... }
my $a = Dog.new;
my $b = $a;
then $a and $b both refer to the same Dog object. How would I
define Dog such that it acts like a value type -- i.e., so that
$b would be a copy of $a and future changes to the object in $a
don't affect $b.
(Various parts of the synopses talk about .WHICH being used to
define value types, but I don't quite see how that fits in to
assignment.)
Thanks!
Pm
