Re: stringify question

2001-06-12 Thread Goldin Evgeny (aka Genie)
Btw, there's a series of extracts from the "Object Oriented Perl" available at Damian's page : http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/#Object_Oriented_Perl And it has the overloading mechanism included

Re: stringify question

2001-06-11 Thread Evgeny Goldin (aka Genie)
Overloading in Perl isn't such an advanced topic, I think. The classic "Object Oriented Perl" by Damian Conway explains this thoroughly ( as well as zillions of other things ). Let me know if you'll really need a detailed material - I can copy the chapter for you.

Re: stringify question

2001-06-11 Thread Peter Scott
At 06:18 PM 6/11/01 +0200, Ruth Albocher wrote: >hi >I have started learning perl recently as I need to maintain someone's >old code. >under 'use overload' along with other 'normal' overloaded operators he >has: qw("", stringify) >i understand each word separately.. but.. where's it invoked and h

stringify question

2001-06-11 Thread Ruth Albocher
hi I have started learning perl recently as I need to maintain someone's old code. under 'use overload' along with other 'normal' overloaded operators he has: qw("", stringify) i understand each word separately.. but.. where's it invoked and how? is there a recommended site i can look things like