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If you produce a copy constructor by overloading '=', I believe the reflexive mutators will be autogenerated to do the right thing. There is explanation on pp 7-8,14 of perldoc overload.

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Re^2: A warning about overloading assignment methods
by diotalevi (Canon) on Apr 20, 2005 at 06:23 UTC
    I found much of that goop called documentation unintelligible and have implemented methods for -, -=, and =. I only see this problem in -=. The portions covering this part of overload just weren't clear on what they meant. Also, while there were some general warnings about taking references to $_[0] there was nothing about the contents of data structures being magically altered when references to $_[0] were present.
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