Steve Fink wrote:
>
> But then what does my $x = BlueFoo->new(); print
> "$x" do, assuming there is a BlueFoo::STRINGIFY? Print
> "BlueFoo=HASH(0x0b38134)"?
The current thinking it to preserve the default behavior, which would be
to print out the ref info, UNLESS there is a STRING function. That
STRING function would then print out whatever you set it up to print
out. See RFC 49 for more info.
So, if you defined BlueFoo::STRING as follows:
package BlueFoo;
sub STRING {
return "Wazzzzzzaaaaap!!";
}
Then your code would do this:
my $x = BlueFoo->new;
print "$x"; # prints "Wazzzzzzaaaaap!!"
Also, please note the sub is STRING. 10,000 emails went back and forth,
and STRINGIFY is too cute for non-English natives. It also requires we
do NUMMIFY or BOOLIFY instead of NUMBER or BOOLEAN. Too cute.
See RFC 159 for more details on this.
> As for non-vtable methods, were you planning on making
>
> my Foo $foo; $foo->method_not_in_Foo_package();
The identical Perl 5 behavior and error of:
Can't locate method method_not_in_Foo_package via package $foo
Should apply here.
-Nate
