Re: operator overloading

[Christian Borup <borup borup com>]

On man, 2003-04-28 at 18:36, muppet wrote:
> is there anybody on the list who is familiar with perl's operator overloading
> interface?
>
> i tried adding
>
>   package G::Object;
>   use overload '==' => \&G::Object::eq;
>
> to G.pm[1], so that we could use a natural syntax for comparing object
> instances.  (you can't just compare the scalars, because they are always
> different; you need to compare the juicy blessed reference value centers
> inside.)

You need to add fallback => 1, so you'd get.
        use overload '==' => \&G::Object::eq, fallback => 1;

This statement should work (that being said - overloading can be
somewhat strange).

Without fallback overload assumes that you have defined all applicable
operators.

./borup