(MeowChow) Re8: Comprehending Binary :=

So at what point does the lvalue method get called, once $thresh goes out of scope, or once the object is accessed, or at some other time?

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Re: (MeowChow) Re8: Comprehending Binary := by chromatic (Archbishop) on Oct 08, 2001 at 08:54 UTC
If I understand correctly, you can think of it as roughly akin to a lexical glob assignment. So the lvaluable (lvalued?) method is called on each assignment to $thresh. The moon stays the same, but there are several fingers, each with a different name.	[reply]
Re: Re: (MeowChow) Re8: Comprehending Binary := by TheDamian (Vicar) on Oct 08, 2001 at 11:22 UTC
Good guess. But wrong. The method gets called when the binding is first done. At that point the `$thresh` variable is bound to the lvalue returned by the method call. Thereafter any assignment to `$thresh` assigns the the original lvalue, which has the effect of assigning to the result of the method call, but without the cost of the method call.	[reply] [d/l] [select]