package overload;
-our $VERSION = '1.03';
-
-$overload::hint_bits = 0x20000; # HINT_LOCALIZE_HH
+our $VERSION = '1.04';
sub nil {}
}
else {
$^H{$_[0]} = $_[1];
- $^H |= $constants{$_[0]} | $overload::hint_bits;
+ $^H |= $constants{$_[0]};
}
shift, shift;
}
=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,
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