package overload;
-our $VERSION = '1.00';
-
-$overload::hint_bits = 0x20000; # HINT_LOCALIZE_HH
+our $VERSION = '1.04';
sub nil {}
sub AddrRef {
my $package = ref $_[0];
return "$_[0]" unless $package;
- bless $_[0], overload::Fake; # Non-overloaded package
- my $str = "$_[0]";
- bless $_[0], $package; # Back
- $package . substr $str, index $str, '=';
-}
-sub StrVal {
- (ref $_[0] && OverloadedStringify($_[0]) or ref($_[0]) eq 'Regexp') ?
- (AddrRef(shift)) :
- "$_[0]";
+ require Scalar::Util;
+ my $class = Scalar::Util::blessed($_[0]);
+ my $class_prefix = defined($class) ? "$class=" : "";
+ my $type = Scalar::Util::reftype($_[0]);
+ my $addr = Scalar::Util::refaddr($_[0]);
+ return sprintf("$class_prefix$type(0x%x)", $addr);
}
+*StrVal = *AddrRef;
+
sub mycan { # Real can would leave stubs.
my ($package, $meth) = @_;
return \*{$package . "::$meth"} if defined &{$package . "::$meth"};
}
else {
$^H{$_[0]} = $_[1];
- $^H |= $constants{$_[0]} | $overload::hint_bits;
+ $^H |= $constants{$_[0]};
}
shift, shift;
}
=head1 NAME
-overload - Package for overloading perl operations
+overload - Package for overloading Perl operations
=head1 SYNOPSIS
=item * I<Special>
- "nomethod", "fallback", "=",
+ "nomethod", "fallback", "=", "~~",
see L<SPECIAL SYMBOLS FOR C<use overload>>.
B<Note.> C<"fallback"> inheritance via @ISA is not carved in stone
yet, see L<"Inheritance and overloading">.
+=head2 Smart Match
+
+The key C<"~~"> allows you to override the smart matching used by
+the switch construct. See L<feature>.
+
=head2 Copy Constructor
The value for C<"="> is a reference to a function with three
=back
+=head1 Minimal set of overloaded operations
+
+Since some operations can be automatically generated from others, there is
+a minimal set of operations that need to be overloaded in order to have
+the complete set of overloaded operations at one's disposal.
+Of course, the autogenerated operations may not do exactly what the user
+expects. See L<MAGIC AUTOGENERATION> above. The minimal set is:
+
+ + - * / % ** << >> x
+ <=> cmp
+ & | ^ ~
+ atan2 cos sin exp log sqrt int
+
+Additionally, you need to define at least one of string, boolean or
+numeric conversions because any one can be used to emulate the others.
+The string conversion can also be used to emulate concatenation.
+
=head1 Losing overloading
The restriction for the comparison operation is that even if, for example,
=item overload::StrVal(arg)
-Gives string value of C<arg> as in absence of stringify overloading.
+Gives string value of C<arg> as in absence of stringify overloading. If you
+are using this to get the address of a reference (useful for checking if two
+references point to the same thing) then you may be better off using
+C<Scalar::Util::refaddr()>, which is faster.
=item overload::Overloaded(arg)
=head1 Overloading constants
-For some application Perl parser mangles constants too much. It is possible
-to hook into this process via overload::constant() and overload::remove_constant()
-functions.
+For some applications, the Perl parser mangles constants too much.
+It is possible to hook into this process via C<overload::constant()>
+and C<overload::remove_constant()> functions.
These functions take a hash as an argument. The recognized keys of this hash
-are
+are:
=over 8
overload::constant integer => sub {Math::BigInt->new(shift)};
}
-B<BUGS> Currently overloaded-ness of constants does not propagate
-into C<eval '...'>.
-
=head1 IMPLEMENTATION
What follows is subject to change RSN.
Note that while we obtained this value using a nice little script,
there is no simple way to I<use> this value. In fact this value may
-be inspected in debugger (see L<perldebug>), but ony if
+be inspected in debugger (see L<perldebug>), but only if
C<bareStringify> B<O>ption is set, and not via C<p> command.
If one attempts to print this value, then the overloaded operator