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+#!perl -T
+
+use strict;
+
+use Test::More;
+use File::Slurp;
+use IO::Handle ;
+use UNIVERSAL ;
+
+plan tests => 3 ;
+
+my $path = "data.txt";
+my $data = "random junk\n";
+
+# create an object with an overloaded path
+
+my $obj = FileObject->new( $path ) ;
+
+isa_ok( $obj, 'FileObject' ) ;
+is( "$obj", $path, "object stringifies to path" );
+
+write_file( $obj, $data ) ;
+
+my $read_text = read_file( $obj ) ;
+is( $data, $read_text, 'read_file of stringified object' ) ;
+
+unlink $path ;
+
+exit ;
+
+# this code creates the object which has a stringified path
+
+package FileObject;
+
+use overload
+	q[""]	=> \&stringify,
+	fallback => 1 ;
+
+sub new {
+	return bless { path => $_[1] }, $_[0]
+}
+
+sub stringify {
+	return $_[0]->{path}
+}