Re^4: Is there a wantobject like wantarray?

I use it so it must be popular!

URI , Path::Class (update: should mention Path::Tiny too as it’s starting to replace the Path::Class stuff for me), a bunch of Mojo stuff come to mind… a good handful of others in my tree. :P

ack use\ overload /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18.2/ | ack '""' | 
+wc -l
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Re^5: Is there a wantobject like wantarray? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 25, 2014 at 16:40 UTC
> I use it so it must be popular! Well ... you certainly think you are funny ... ¹ Do you know if this approach involves changing the nature² of the scalar after its first use, to speed up things afterwards? (Maybe I'm confusing this now with quantum superposition magic ...) Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)} ¹) you are! ;-) ²) i.e. unblessing	[reply]
Re^6: Is there a wantobject like wantarray? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 25, 2014 at 17:36 UTC
I don’t know but I’d be very surprised if it did. This is not my forté, more my piano (see! I am funny), but this seems to support the notion; both dumps being the same– `use 5.012; use Devel::Peek; package Bingo { use Moo; use overload '""' => sub { +shift->ohai }; has ohai => is => "rw"; }; my $bingo = Bingo->new( ohai => "DER" ); Dump $bingo; say "\n$bingo\n"; Dump $bingo;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: Is there a wantobject like wantarray? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 26, 2014 at 10:36 UTC
Sorry my question was not well phrased. Maybe better "involves possibility" or "allows". The point about a "want context" is to return the right data type. Returning an object could be a work around, if it transforms into the right data type after first access. Otherwise there would be a performance penalty for simple scalars. But not sure if unblessing or untying within an accessor is a reliable approach with calculated risk. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}	[reply]