in reply to Don't have a COW? Get one!

a) Generalize for Arrays, Hashes and objects?
b) rename($INC{'COW.pm'}, 'Clone/Lazy.pm')?

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Re: Re: Don't have a COW? Get one!
by japhy (Canon) on Nov 30, 2001 at 21:42 UTC
    I guess that would be the next step. I'm keeping it with scalars for now because it's simpler that way. And this wouldn't be a module, this would be a built-in magic behavior.

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      Magic behavior for 5.8 or 6? If 6 then the apparent custom is to write a module that implements it for 5.6, no?

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