On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:29:09PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: : Em Qui, 2009-03-12 às 19:07 +0100, Jonathan Worthington escreveu: : > IIRC, that's a special syntactic form that only counts when it is on the : > RHS of but or does. (And yes, in this case it fails if the role has more : > than one attr...) I think in all other cases, it's a coercion. : : hmm... : : for some reason I always thought you would do : : my $x = $resultset but Role::Serializable::XML; : : in that kind of situation... it feels awkward to have the exact same : syntax to mean two completely unralated things...
That's a mixin, not a coercion. The resulting type is anonymous, not Role::Serializable::XML. Larry
