John Peacock wrote:
Yes, overloading allows me, as a class author, full freedom to decide
how my object will behave in different situations. It has nothing
whatsoever to do with the behavior of well-behaved introspection tools:
On further thought, I'll claim that putting the following to overload
stringification for a class:
'""' => sub { shift->tid() }
should affect the behavior of $$ref and not $ref. That is, the thing
being overloaded is the class and not the reference so "$ref" should
continue to do what the "reference" type says that stringification
should do (that is, return the referenced class name plus unique id)
while "$$ref" should use the stringification rule for the class that is
being referenced.
- Jim
