in reply to Assigning to a ArrayRef accessor type

Hello tomred, and congratulations on your first post!

MockObj::files is not an array, it’s an array reference. So instead of assigning to an array variable:

my @strings = $mock->files;

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you should assign to a scalar:

my $strings = $mock->files;
note explain $strings;

cmp_deeply($strings, bag(@list));

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which gives the desired test result:

 1:14 >perl 2056_SoPW.pl
# [
#   'string one',
#   'Different string',
#   'With feeling'
# ]
# [
#   'string one',
#   'Different string',
#   'With feeling'
# ]
ok 1
1..1

 1:14 >

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Hope that helps,

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Re^2: Assigning to an ArrayRef accessor type
by tobyink (Canon) on Sep 21, 2020 at 17:08 UTC

    An alternative to this:

    my $strings = $mock->files;

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    Would be this:

    my @strings = @{ $mock->files };

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    Or if you've got a very recent version of Perl:

    my @strings = $mock->files->@*;

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    Moose also has an optional feature where it can detect if an accessor is called in a list context and return a list instead of a reference, but Moo didn't implement that because it can get confusing to work with.

    toby döt ink
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      Arrrh.

      Thank you

      Thanks you both. I should have spotted that.
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