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@@ -383,6 +383,11 @@ be used instead. C<bool> is used in the flow control operators
return any arbitrary Perl value. If the corresponding operation for this value
is overloaded too, that operation will be called again with this value.
+As a special case if the overload returns the object itself then it will
+be used directly. An overloaded conversion returning the object is
+probably a bug, because you're likely to get something that looks like
+C<YourPackage=HASH(0x8172b34)>.
+
=item * I<Iteration>
"<>"