Good Day, I'm working on a Module for working with permutation groups. I always use strict, warnings, and I even write (and run) test scripts while I write the module! I am completely confused by this problem though. I have the following test script: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Group::Permutation;

my $x = new Group::Permutation qw(1 3 2 4);
print "x = $x\n";
print 'x of 2 = ',$x->of(2),"\n";
print 'ref of x of 2: ', ref $x->of(2),"\n";
print "x of 2 is three!\n" if ($x->of(2) == 3);

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This produces the output: 
x = (1, 3, 2, 4)
x of 2 = 3
ref of x of 2:

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Most notably, the test ($x->of(2) == 3) fails. I can't figure out why this happens.

The ref test was put in because I overloaded == and I wanted to make sure perl wasn't calling the wrong == (I also added a print statement to the == code).

For complete disclosure of information: 
sub of {
    my $x = shift;

    my @y = map { $_-1 if defined && /^\d+$/ && $_>0 } @_;
    # protect the caller from placement errors
    return undef unless ($#y == $#_);

    return map { ($_<$$x{'n'}) ? $$x{'perm'}[$_] + 1 : $_+1 } @y;
}

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and 
sub new {
    # SNIP

    # BEGIN vicious error checking
    #   all input must be legitimate
    $x{'perm'}=[ map { $_-1 if defined and /^\d+$/ and $_ > 0} @_ ];
    return undef unless $#{$x{'perm'}} == $#_;
    #   it must really be a permutation of 0..n-1
    return undef unless join(' ',sort { $a <=> $b } @{$x{'perm'}}) eq 
+join(' ',0..$#{$x{'perm'}});
    # END error checking

    # SNIP

    $x{'n'} = scalar @{$x{'perm'}}; # for clarity in other places

    bless \%x, $class;
}

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The snipped sections are just some definitions and option parsing.

Thanks,

    -Dean

In reply to (x == 3 && x != 3) by duelafn

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