> I'm ashamed that this feature would mess with my (bad?) habit of
> re-writing "$pw" to just $pw on the assumption that whoever wrote
> it didn't know what the hell he was doing. Would anybody else be
> caught like that?
I'm not sure it would. I think if we did it right all of these could
potentially have the same effect of calling $pw->SCALAR:
print "$pw";
print $pw;
print scalar $pw;
> What if it were a per-variable modifier? Something like $"var"? I
> know that collides with special variables, but it seems a bit
> more obvious that stringify behavior is wanted.
The only way this is useful is if it makes objects seemlessly look like
scalars. If a special syntax is needed then it's no better than:
print $pw->SCALAR;
You're right, though, we'll have to make sure this is implemented 100%
correctly or else it isn't much good. I'll add this to version 2.
-Nate
