Re: Another approach to vtables

[Simon Cozens]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:32:16PM -0200, Branden wrote:
> I noticed I couldn't get it to work. The thing is that $x = ... makes a
> sv_setsv, what copies the value of the other SV (ST(0) in this case), but
> not its magic, and other stuff. Here is the difference between `variable'
> and `value'. In Perl5, at least, I could attach magic to a variable, but not
> to a value (AFAIK).

That's not quite right. I can do
    %untied = %tied;

If Perl 5 worked the way you wanted, you could do
    %tied2  = %tied;
    %untied = (%tied); 

But if "%foo = %bar" should make %foo magical or not is a language issue, so
I'm allowed to duck the question. :)

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