On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, Toby Corkindale wrote: > Seems to be an error in the Manual::Cookbook. > Under "Stringification" it says: > Employ the standard stringification technique by using the "overload" > module. Replace "foo" with the column/method of your choice. > > use overload '""' => 'foo', fallback => 1; > > However, this results in an error of: > Can't resolve method "???" overloading """" in package "overload" > > Changing the overload line to this (thanks Castaway!) works: > use overload '""' => sub { return $_[0]->foo; }, fallback => 1; > > >This is on Perl 5.8.8 (overload.pm $VERSION=1.04).
For what it's worth I'm seeing something similar-but-different (on perl v5.8.5 with overload.pm 1.01). I added stringification in the use overload '""' => 'foo', fallback => 1; style to the target class of a has_one relationship and it stopped working, with (as far as I can tell) the accessor returning undef. Switching the stringification to use overload '""' => sub { shift->foo }, fallback => 1; fixed the problem. I have neither the clue nor frankly the time at the moment to work out what's happening, but offer this as a data point. Jon. -- Jon Warbrick Web/News Development, Computing Service, University of Cambridge _______________________________________________ List: http://lists.rawmode.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dbix-class Wiki: http://dbix-class.shadowcatsystems.co.uk/ IRC: irc.perl.org#dbix-class SVN: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/repos/bast/trunk/DBIx-Class/ Searchable Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dbix-class@lists.rawmode.org/