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| author | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-02-10 14:22:02 -0800 |
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| committer | Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> | 2011-02-10 14:25:18 -0800 |
| commit | dc04e1e9e5625cc5319a68130165b381dfd4c6fa (patch) | |
| tree | 74f3a4da827b0144fa2dab132a3544a93c025aee /lib/overload.pm | |
| parent | c378af320498199f011ee6aca32cef036936dd36 (diff) | |
| download | perl-dc04e1e9e5625cc5319a68130165b381dfd4c6fa.tar.gz | |
Revert "The relation between overloading and ties has been fixed."
This reverts commit c378af320498199f011ee6aca32cef036936dd36.
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diff --git a/lib/overload.pm b/lib/overload.pm index 9a2c4c594c..c538177265 100644 --- a/lib/overload.pm +++ b/lib/overload.pm @@ -1678,6 +1678,19 @@ from two overloaded packages. =item * +Relation between overloading and tie()ing is broken. Overloading is +triggered or not basing on the I<previous> class of tie()d value. + +This happens because the presence of overloading is checked too early, +before any tie()d access is attempted. If the FETCH()ed class of the +tie()d value does not change, a simple workaround is to access the value +immediately after tie()ing, so that after this call the I<previous> class +coincides with the current one. + +B<Needed:> a way to fix this without a speed penalty. + +=item * + Barewords are not covered by overloaded string constants. =back |